Regarding that point, I do think it’s important that all axes in such a system are reasonably orthogonal. General Upvote, Truth, Aim, Truthseeking, and Clarity all seem far too correlated to be on separate axes.
It took a while to read this, because I’d have said ‘hits the mark/misses the point’ and clear/muddled were the ones that seemed perhaps too similar. Then I noticed that you mentioned those—processing what these words mean quickly is going to take a bit to get down.
A comment, or post, could be clear, and yet, the point might not be. (And I might comment asking there.)
Also: The current popup has virtues on the left and vices on the right, whereas the LW voting system is downvote-upvote, not upvote-downvote. So I’d prefer these axes to be flipped in the popup.
Yes.
I’m fine with the complexity now, but in a big thread, with loads of comments, that are very long...that’s going to be more challenging. Hopefully the new system will make some things more clear, so that the process of understanding gets easier, but at first? It’ll be a lot.
It took a while to read this, because I’d have said ‘hits the mark/misses the point’ and clear/muddled were the ones that seemed perhaps too similar. Then I noticed that you mentioned those—processing what these words mean quickly is going to take a bit to get down.
A comment, or post, could be clear, and yet, the point might not be. (And I might comment asking there.)
Yes.
I’m fine with the complexity now, but in a big thread, with loads of comments, that are very long...that’s going to be more challenging. Hopefully the new system will make some things more clear, so that the process of understanding gets easier, but at first? It’ll be a lot.