I tentatively agree with you. Without a distinction between upvotes/âdownvotes and agree-votes/âdisagree-votes, high quality posts which provoke important but difficult community conversations may have their visibility systematically reduced. (I endeavored to write this post to fit that description.)
However, since we already have that distinction for comments, there must have been a specific decision to enable the distinction for comments but not for posts, and there was presumably a good reason.
I hope the reason is âthey havenât got around to it yetâ. I think the upvote-agreement split has been an incredible success for comments, and it would be a shame if it wasnât extended to posts as well.
Right now, you have to pick between rewarding effort and rewarding what is correct, and I think it clearly disadvantages more controversial posts.
Itâs for posts like these being able to disagree vote without downvoting the main post would be particularly helpful...
I tentatively agree with you. Without a distinction between upvotes/âdownvotes and agree-votes/âdisagree-votes, high quality posts which provoke important but difficult community conversations may have their visibility systematically reduced. (I endeavored to write this post to fit that description.)
However, since we already have that distinction for comments, there must have been a specific decision to enable the distinction for comments but not for posts, and there was presumably a good reason.
I hope the reason is âthey havenât got around to it yetâ. I think the upvote-agreement split has been an incredible success for comments, and it would be a shame if it wasnât extended to posts as well.
Right now, you have to pick between rewarding effort and rewarding what is correct, and I think it clearly disadvantages more controversial posts.