Comment on Viewing votes

jadero@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’ve long had concerns with up/down votes and like/dislike, especially the down/dislike. Nothing major, and I have no real solutions.

My concerns are only to do with the ambiguity. There are so many different reasons why someone might vote one way or the other or even just not vote at all that I think it’s kind of weird that compiling the votes into a score seems to mostly work pretty good. That ambiguity means that it’s difficult to derive meaning from any individual vote, which I think argues in favour of keeping it somewhat private. Just because a non-admin can jump through hoops to get someone’s voting history, doesn’t mean it should be deliberately made public.

As for keeping down votes, I’d be reluctant to mess with a system that works as well as it seems to. Personally, I very rarely downvote, as even that is more engagement than I’m willing to provide. In fact, one of the things I like about the client I use, Thunder, is that I have to long press a comment in order to vote. That little bit of friction means that I vote less often. When I vote, it’s because I really mean whatever I intend the vote to mean.

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