If a 5-star system of voting were to be implemented, the UI of voting could continue being the same, and the weights of previous votes could be used but as if they had in between 1 stars increments: strong downvote, downvote, no vote, upvote, strong upvote.
And a middle (3 stars) vote could be added.
I know that people don’t think of both ways of voting as equivalents, and a regular “upvote” could reduce the score of a comment/ post.
But they are similar enough, and the UI would be much simpler and not discourage people from voting.
If a 5-star system of voting were to be implemented, the UI of voting could continue being the same, and the weights of previous votes could be used but as if they had in between 1 stars increments: strong downvote, downvote, no vote, upvote, strong upvote.
And a middle (3 stars) vote could be added.
I know that people don’t think of both ways of voting as equivalents, and a regular “upvote” could reduce the score of a comment/ post.
But they are similar enough, and the UI would be much simpler and not discourage people from voting.