(Wait, that’s basically just extended Slashdot. Eh, I like Slashdot’s system.)
Yup! And so is my idea, really. The key differences between my idea and Slashdot’s implementation are as follows.
Everyone gets to cast a vote, a la Reddit. I don’t think that that Venetian Republic style “random mod powers” system does any good.
There’s only a single upvote, but multiple types of downvote. For the following reasons:
good content often scores well on multiple categories, but shitty content usually has a jarring flaw.
interface-wise, the upvote could demand a simple click, while the downvote would require two (“downvote”, then select type of downvote). That would weakly discourage downvotes (as they take “more effort”), without discouraging upvotes.
people don’t usually get pissed because they don’t know why they’re being upvoted. They do it because they don’t know why they’re being downvoted.
The downvote categories that I’m thinking about are “dislike”, “rude”, “unfunny”, “misleading/assumptive”, “non-contributive”.
Then its usage for sorting goes a lot like in your idea; you’d have the “default” scoring for the community, but users can override it for themselves with a personal one. So for example if you’re like me and don’t care too much about rudeness, you set up the weight of “rude” downvotes to 0.5 or something like this; this means that two “rude” downvotes cancel out a single upvote. And if you got a hate boner against “ackshyually”, you set up the “non-contributive” ones to -2.
Yup! And so is my idea, really. The key differences between my idea and Slashdot’s implementation are as follows.
Everyone gets to cast a vote, a la Reddit. I don’t think that that Venetian Republic style “random mod powers” system does any good.
There’s only a single upvote, but multiple types of downvote. For the following reasons:
The downvote categories that I’m thinking about are “dislike”, “rude”, “unfunny”, “misleading/assumptive”, “non-contributive”.
Then its usage for sorting goes a lot like in your idea; you’d have the “default” scoring for the community, but users can override it for themselves with a personal one. So for example if you’re like me and don’t care too much about rudeness, you set up the weight of “rude” downvotes to 0.5 or something like this; this means that two “rude” downvotes cancel out a single upvote. And if you got a hate boner against “ackshyually”, you set up the “non-contributive” ones to -2.