edit: yeah, I'm pretty sure I agree too, I'm not sure why I wrote so much...
I think strict Up-Down voting ultimately regresses to a Boo/Yay judgement; despite whatever benevolent community coercion exists to color the vote along some more complex institutional axis. (In so far as we're talking about a free public forum... substitute virtually any conception of "free" you like. e.g. if this were a pay-for community we could probably implicitly afford to have a higher expectation for the "respect" for institutional rules.)
I think the concept of providing additional axis of voting could lead to very interesting community conversations. I think having a voting system that was usably different would drive adoption of the additional institutional rules (e.g. voting via the four cardinals would be interesting enough to be "forthwhile" somewhere on the web) .
something like:
( ) I liked this comment. YAY!
( ) I'd like this comment to get a response. YAY for conversation!
( ) I do not think this comment needs a response. BOO for conversation!
( ) I disliked this comment. BOO!
* Though I'm not sure what to make of the third one. These may not be great exemplars.
I think that this would make for a very interesting experiment -- have two up/down arrows next to each post -- one for "I Agree/Disagree" and one for "This is Valuable/Worthless".
After all, the single up/down does combine several dimensions into one judgment.
But what would be more interesting is to not force any meaning on them whatsoever. And wait and see if some sort of meaning emerges from the community.
I think strict Up-Down voting ultimately regresses to a Boo/Yay judgement; despite whatever benevolent community coercion exists to color the vote along some more complex institutional axis. (In so far as we're talking about a free public forum... substitute virtually any conception of "free" you like. e.g. if this were a pay-for community we could probably implicitly afford to have a higher expectation for the "respect" for institutional rules.)
I think the concept of providing additional axis of voting could lead to very interesting community conversations. I think having a voting system that was usably different would drive adoption of the additional institutional rules (e.g. voting via the four cardinals would be interesting enough to be "forthwhile" somewhere on the web) .
something like: ( ) I liked this comment. YAY! ( ) I'd like this comment to get a response. YAY for conversation! ( ) I do not think this comment needs a response. BOO for conversation! ( ) I disliked this comment. BOO!
* Though I'm not sure what to make of the third one. These may not be great exemplars.