The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (2009)

Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by aeternum on Thursday April 15, 2021 @12:56AM (#26816322)

I think sites would benefit from having more rich voting options, for example: agree but weak-argument, disagree but well-stated, changed my view, etc.

Would yield some more interesting ways to sort and rank comments.

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Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by CM30 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:26AM (#26820173)

So basically, like Facebook Reactions and those post ratings plugins you can get for various forum scripts now.

Yeah, I think that would work. Especially if 'disagree' is a neutral reaction rather than a negative one, so downvoting for disagreement stops being a thing.

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Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by yetihehe on Thursday April 15, 2021 @02:08AM (#26816660)

Very good idea. I wish I could mark your post as such. Then Dang could just filter by "good idea posts" and easily see how to improve site or world.

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Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by coding123 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @01:52PM (#26823868)

Build it and they will come.

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