I realized a generalization from recording up and down vote total separately is to have a few categories of vote. Perhaps a post could be voted “up” “down” “agree” “disagree” “troll”. In a system like this, it would be troll votes rising above a relatively low threshold that would grey-out or hide posts and comments.
I think this is somewhat clunky compared to just reporting up and down separately. But I wanted to throw the idea out there for those who wish to think about this question.
I realized a generalization from recording up and down vote total separately is to have a few categories of vote. Perhaps a post could be voted “up” “down” “agree” “disagree” “troll”. In a system like this, it would be troll votes rising above a relatively low threshold that would grey-out or hide posts and comments.
I think this is somewhat clunky compared to just reporting up and down separately. But I wanted to throw the idea out there for those who wish to think about this question.
In addition to the clunkiness, it also sends the signal to outsiders that trolls are a big problem on this site, which they aren’t.