Much more than finding out who voted what way, I’d like to see the total upvotes and downvotes on a comment. It would be very useful to know if I got 5 upvotes and 5 downvotes or if the comment just sat there getting nothing. I’d much rather know how many people found it interesting or useful than who didn’t like it. The original comment also wasn’t thought through—if the “community as a whole to be united against them” occurred they’d get trashed, not a few down votes.
Off-thread: I recently up voted a comment with −7 votes, because I thought it was worth reading even though probably wrong.
Much more than finding out who voted what way, I’d like to see the total upvotes and downvotes on a comment
Oh, I’d love that too, I just want to know who the person is who logs on once or twice a week and systematically downvotes everything I posted since the last time they were on.
Something like a “5 points (10+/5-)” display, linked to a page that displayed the votes would be nice. I’d contribute it if I could afford the time to really dive into the codebase and learn how it works.
Something like reddit commentroversy would be nice as a feature of the site. Sadly it doesn’t work on LW, maybe I’ll try to look at it and figure out if there is a possible hack to getting working until (if) the feature is implemented here.
A random comment I selected to show what it looks like [Username Changed]:
username 70 points(+184/-116) 7 hours ago[-]
If anyone uses reddit and doesn’t have this get the greasemonkey add-on then go back to the commentroversy and click install.
Something like reddit commentroversy would be nice as a feature of the site. Sadly it doesn’t work on LW, maybe I’ll try to look at it and figure out if there is a possible hack to getting working until (if) the feature is implemented here.
A very quick bit of troubleshooting shows that the json load doesn’t appear to be occurring, i.e. the $.getJSON apparently doesn’t work.
Edit: to be precise, the script bombs out when trying to do anything with ‘$.getJSON’, which perhaps is not available in LW’s version of jQuery?
Edit 2: Ah, LW doesn’t use jQuery. It uses Prototype. The script would have to be converted. But it does indeed appear that LW exports the needed data in JSON form.
Off-thread: I recently up voted a comment with −7 votes, because I thought it was worth reading even though probably wrong.
I think another advantage a +x/-y display would be that sympathy votes or outcome skewing would be harder. If I see a post that is rated −7 and disagree with its status, should I vote the comment up? What if the post was −1? Would that change my vote? I think +5/-12 is harder to sympathize with than −7.
I have a strong opinion that votes should be independent of each other.
Much more than finding out who voted what way, I’d like to see the total upvotes and downvotes on a comment. It would be very useful to know if I got 5 upvotes and 5 downvotes or if the comment just sat there getting nothing. I’d much rather know how many people found it interesting or useful than who didn’t like it. The original comment also wasn’t thought through—if the “community as a whole to be united against them” occurred they’d get trashed, not a few down votes.
Off-thread: I recently up voted a comment with −7 votes, because I thought it was worth reading even though probably wrong.
Oh, I’d love that too, I just want to know who the person is who logs on once or twice a week and systematically downvotes everything I posted since the last time they were on.
Something like a “5 points (10+/5-)” display, linked to a page that displayed the votes would be nice. I’d contribute it if I could afford the time to really dive into the codebase and learn how it works.
Something like reddit commentroversy would be nice as a feature of the site. Sadly it doesn’t work on LW, maybe I’ll try to look at it and figure out if there is a possible hack to getting working until (if) the feature is implemented here.
A random comment I selected to show what it looks like [Username Changed]:
username 70 points(+184/-116) 7 hours ago[-]
If anyone uses reddit and doesn’t have this get the greasemonkey add-on then go back to the commentroversy and click install.
A very quick bit of troubleshooting shows that the json load doesn’t appear to be occurring, i.e. the $.getJSON apparently doesn’t work.
Edit: to be precise, the script bombs out when trying to do anything with ‘$.getJSON’, which perhaps is not available in LW’s version of jQuery?
Edit 2: Ah, LW doesn’t use jQuery. It uses Prototype. The script would have to be converted. But it does indeed appear that LW exports the needed data in JSON form.
I think another advantage a +x/-y display would be that sympathy votes or outcome skewing would be harder. If I see a post that is rated −7 and disagree with its status, should I vote the comment up? What if the post was −1? Would that change my vote? I think +5/-12 is harder to sympathize with than −7.
I have a strong opinion that votes should be independent of each other.