My immediate (kneejerk System-1-ish emotional) reaction to the experimental voting popup is along the lines of “meh, too much effort, won’t bother”.
My slightly less immediate reaction turns out to be much the same. So e.g. I think “I should give this a try”, take a look at the comment currently presented to me first, and … well, there are now 9x as many things to decide about it as before (overall opinion, 4 “axes”, and 4 possible reaction emoji), and all but the first feel as if they require substantially more mental work to arrive at a useful opinion about, and I just don’t wanna.
But!
In practice, the way I usually use the LW karma system (other than “implicit” uses like reading the comments in the order the UI presents them to me in, which is affected by karma) is something like this: I vote only when something I read strikes me as especially good or bad, in which case I consider briefly whether it’s good/bad enough to be worth voting on, and whether if so it warrants a strong up/down-vote. This process seems like it might cope fine with the more complex interface—if I’ve been particularly impressed or unimpressed by something I’ll have some sense of what about it is impressive or unimpressive to me, and having a finer-grained way to express that seems like a gain rather than a loss.
So it may be that the answers to the questions “is explicitly deciding what to do with a particular post or comment easier or harder with this experiment?” and “is voting as I actually do it easier or harder with this experiment?” are substantially different.
My immediate (kneejerk System-1-ish emotional) reaction to the experimental voting popup is along the lines of “meh, too much effort, won’t bother”.
My slightly less immediate reaction turns out to be much the same. So e.g. I think “I should give this a try”, take a look at the comment currently presented to me first, and … well, there are now 9x as many things to decide about it as before (overall opinion, 4 “axes”, and 4 possible reaction emoji), and all but the first feel as if they require substantially more mental work to arrive at a useful opinion about, and I just don’t wanna.
But!
In practice, the way I usually use the LW karma system (other than “implicit” uses like reading the comments in the order the UI presents them to me in, which is affected by karma) is something like this: I vote only when something I read strikes me as especially good or bad, in which case I consider briefly whether it’s good/bad enough to be worth voting on, and whether if so it warrants a strong up/down-vote. This process seems like it might cope fine with the more complex interface—if I’ve been particularly impressed or unimpressed by something I’ll have some sense of what about it is impressive or unimpressive to me, and having a finer-grained way to express that seems like a gain rather than a loss.
So it may be that the answers to the questions “is explicitly deciding what to do with a particular post or comment easier or harder with this experiment?” and “is voting as I actually do it easier or harder with this experiment?” are substantially different.
[EDITED to fix an inconsequential typo.]