Small point: > Finally, we ask that people upvote or downvote this post on the basis of whether they believe it to have made a useful contribution to the conversation, rather than whether they agree with all of our critiques.
I think this makes a false dilemma, and recommends what seems like an unusual standard that other posts probably don’t have.
“believe it to have made a useful contribution to the conversation” → This seems like arguably a really low bar to me. I think that many posts, even bad ones, did something useful to the conversation.
“whether they agree with all of our critiques.” → I never agree with all of basically any post.
I think that more fair standards of voting would be things more like: ”Do I generally agree with these arguments?” ″Do I think that this post, as a whole, is something I want community members to pay attention to, relative to other posts?”
Sadly we don’t yet have separate “vote vs. agreement” markers for posts, but I think those would be really useful here.
Small point:
> Finally, we ask that people upvote or downvote this post on the basis of whether they believe it to have made a useful contribution to the conversation, rather than whether they agree with all of our critiques.
I think this makes a false dilemma, and recommends what seems like an unusual standard that other posts probably don’t have.
“believe it to have made a useful contribution to the conversation” → This seems like arguably a really low bar to me. I think that many posts, even bad ones, did something useful to the conversation.
“whether they agree with all of our critiques.” → I never agree with all of basically any post.
I think that more fair standards of voting would be things more like:
”Do I generally agree with these arguments?”
″Do I think that this post, as a whole, is something I want community members to pay attention to, relative to other posts?”
Sadly we don’t yet have separate “vote vs. agreement” markers for posts, but I think those would be really useful here.