The story of how it got that way is that agree/disagree was originally built as an experiment-with-voting-systems feature, with the key component of that being that different posts can have different voting systems without conflict. (See eg this thread for another voting system we tried.)
The main reason for hesitation (other ForumMagnum developers might not agree) is that I’m not really convinced that 2-axis voting is the right voting system, and expanding it from a posts-have-different-voting-systems context to a whole-site-is-2-axis context limits the options for future experimentation. In particular, there’s a big unresolved fundamental issue in how votes conflate positivity with engagement, which I really want to solve some day.
The story of how it got that way is that agree/disagree was originally built as an experiment-with-voting-systems feature, with the key component of that being that different posts can have different voting systems without conflict. (See eg this thread for another voting system we tried.)
The main reason for hesitation (other ForumMagnum developers might not agree) is that I’m not really convinced that 2-axis voting is the right voting system, and expanding it from a posts-have-different-voting-systems context to a whole-site-is-2-axis context limits the options for future experimentation. In particular, there’s a big unresolved fundamental issue in how votes conflate positivity with engagement, which I really want to solve some day.