I don’t see bloat as much of a concern, because our voting system, which works pretty well, can bring the best comments to the top. If they’re not substantive, they should either be pretty short, or not be highly upvoted.
I will personally feel bad downvoting low-information comments of encouragement, even if they’re currently higher up on the rankings than (what I perceive to be) more substantive neutral or negative comments.
Perhaps comments/posts should have more than just one “like or dislike” metric? For example, it could have upvoting or downvoting in categories of “significant/interesting,” “accurate,” “novel,” etc. It also need not eliminate the simple voting metric if you prefer that.
(People may have already discussed this somewhere else, but I figured why not comment—especially on a post that asks if we should engage more?)
I don’t see bloat as much of a concern, because our voting system, which works pretty well, can bring the best comments to the top. If they’re not substantive, they should either be pretty short, or not be highly upvoted.
I will personally feel bad downvoting low-information comments of encouragement, even if they’re currently higher up on the rankings than (what I perceive to be) more substantive neutral or negative comments.
Perhaps comments/posts should have more than just one “like or dislike” metric? For example, it could have upvoting or downvoting in categories of “significant/interesting,” “accurate,” “novel,” etc. It also need not eliminate the simple voting metric if you prefer that.
(People may have already discussed this somewhere else, but I figured why not comment—especially on a post that asks if we should engage more?)