I continue to be concerned with issues around downvotes and upvotes being used as “boos” and “yays” rather than saying something about the worthiness of a thing to be engaged with (I’ve been thinking about this for a while and just posted a comment about it over on EA forum). The result is that to me votes a very low in information value, which is unfortunate because they are the primary feedback mechanism on LW. I would love to see a move towards something that made voting costlier, although I realize that might impact engagement. There are probably other solutions that overcome these issues by not directly tweaking voting but instead pulling sideways at voting to come up with something that would work better for what I consider the import thing you want votes for: to identify the stuff worth engaging with.
Stack Exchange question votes are asymmetric, such that an upvote gives +10 rep and a downvote −2. I discuss the benefits of that system here. While LW is different from SE (do users who produce high-quality content value LW karma as much as SE rep?), it might be worth doubling karma awarded to votes on questions.
I continue to be concerned with issues around downvotes and upvotes being used as “boos” and “yays” rather than saying something about the worthiness of a thing to be engaged with (I’ve been thinking about this for a while and just posted a comment about it over on EA forum). The result is that to me votes a very low in information value, which is unfortunate because they are the primary feedback mechanism on LW. I would love to see a move towards something that made voting costlier, although I realize that might impact engagement. There are probably other solutions that overcome these issues by not directly tweaking voting but instead pulling sideways at voting to come up with something that would work better for what I consider the import thing you want votes for: to identify the stuff worth engaging with.
Stack Exchange question votes are asymmetric, such that an upvote gives +10 rep and a downvote −2. I discuss the benefits of that system here. While LW is different from SE (do users who produce high-quality content value LW karma as much as SE rep?), it might be worth doubling karma awarded to votes on questions.