I’ll just note that we’re pointing people somewhat in the right direction by labelling the up- and down-vote buttons “I found this useful” and “I didn’t find this useful”, in order to encourage people to appraise whether the posts are valuable and evidence-based, rather than whether they’re to the reader’s personal taste.
I think the big picture here is not whether one agrees with individual upvotes or downvotes but how the system is working overall. Largely, I think it’s identifying real differences in post quality and also the fact that about 95% of votes appear to be upvotes means that the system will encourage people to post more. So, I’m pretty encouraged by the way things are going so far. Maybe we can tilt people to consider slightly more comments ‘useful’, though.
I’ll just note that we’re pointing people somewhat in the right direction by labelling the up- and down-vote buttons “I found this useful” and “I didn’t find this useful”, in order to encourage people to appraise whether the posts are valuable and evidence-based, rather than whether they’re to the reader’s personal taste.
I think the big picture here is not whether one agrees with individual upvotes or downvotes but how the system is working overall. Largely, I think it’s identifying real differences in post quality and also the fact that about 95% of votes appear to be upvotes means that the system will encourage people to post more. So, I’m pretty encouraged by the way things are going so far. Maybe we can tilt people to consider slightly more comments ‘useful’, though.