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 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?)