Re:Symptoms of Groupthink (2012)
by ryandrake on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:39AM
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I don’t think you can get rid of groupthink while still letting everyone vote on everyone else’s opinion. People are going to inevitably use the up and downvotes as agree/disagree buttons and boom, you have crowd-enforced “correct” opinions. If your goal is to curate quality discussion, don’t crowdsource that curation. All voting systems I’ve seen confuse popularity with quality.
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Re:Symptoms of Groupthink (2012)
by BurningFrog on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:58AM
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> If your goal is to curate quality discussion, don’t crowdsource that curation.
But what other resource than the crowd is readily available to curate?
Non curated public discussions are absolute garbage, so I'll take a flawed curation over none every time.
Re:Symptoms of Groupthink (2012)
by hiccuphippo on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:51AM
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What about adding separate "I agree/disagree with this" buttons? With minimal or no influence on the position/color of comments. Would people be able to say "I disagree with this comment but it makes a good point"?
I liked good ol Slashdot’s system, where if you vote, you need to select a reason with a drop down menu. This tiny bit of extra friction might be helpful to discourage quick “drive-by” downvoting and brigading. Additionally, their meta-moderation system helped to make sure people were really voting in good faith. I think they were really ahead of their time in some respects.
Also, give people a vote budget so they think about whether they really need to vote. Maybe 5 votes per day. For whatever reason I can only write 5 posts per day here, so I try to use them wisely. Same should go for votes.