Tell HN: Disagree ≠ Downvote

Re:Tell HN: Disagree ≠ Downvote by DevX101 on Monday February 14, 2011 @09:43PM (#2219876)

I don't think this reflect badly on the users doing the downvoting. This reflects a missing ingredient in the user interface. Up/down votes are too simplistic for the discussion based forums like HN. There ought to be 3 options in reacting to comments:

1) "That was an insightful comment, and I agree with you" 2) "That was a reasonable comment, but I disagree with you" and 3) "You're an idiot"

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Re:Tell HN: Disagree ≠ Downvote by endtime on Monday February 14, 2011 @09:53PM (#2219908)

There are three options - upvote, downvote, or do nothing.

If someone says something interesting/insightful/useful, upvote. If someone says something totally inane, downvote. If someone says something which seems reasonable, but with which you don't agree, either upvote or just don't vote.

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Re:Tell HN: Disagree ≠ Downvote by endlessvoid94 on Monday February 14, 2011 @09:56PM (#2219921)

I was JUST thinking about this yesterday. I wrote a messy blog post about it, but the gist is that having conversations online isn't messy enough for real humans yet. Upvoting and downvoting being used as a "i agree" and "i disagree" is inevitable.

http://www.davezor.net/2011/02/online-conversations/

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Re:Tell HN: Disagree ≠ Downvote by solipsist on Monday February 14, 2011 @09:52PM (#2219901)

Part of HN's success is contributed to the simplicity of the interface. A two-choice voting system doesn't necessarily acurately display the user's intentions, but it promotes the most amount of involvement from them. If you were to go with a more complicated voting system, I would suggest going with what is outlined over in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=613071

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