Something that came to mind after reading recent posts by Ulrik and Sarah, along with the reaction to them—Can we do better at distinguishing downvotes and disagreevotes?
In my mind, I view downvotes as saying:
This content violates Forum norms/content policies
This content does not belong on the Forum
I want to see less of this content on the Forum
The community values this content (specifically or in general) too highly
Whereas disagreevotes are saying:
There are particular claims in the piece which are wrong
The argument of the post may be valid, but it does not hold
The author is giving their opinion/experience, and this does not match mine
I think my concern is that the first two bullet points under ‘downvotes’ seem very different from the bottom two.[1] It feels, to me, that we rarely see posts that are highly upvoted but also have significant disagreevotes.
So I don’t have a solution for this apart from some half-baked ideas, but wonder what the Forum team’s perspective was?
Something that came to mind after reading recent posts by Ulrik and Sarah, along with the reaction to them—Can we do better at distinguishing downvotes and disagreevotes?
In my mind, I view downvotes as saying:
This content violates Forum norms/content policies
This content does not belong on the Forum
I want to see less of this content on the Forum
The community values this content (specifically or in general) too highly
Whereas disagreevotes are saying:
There are particular claims in the piece which are wrong
The argument of the post may be valid, but it does not hold
The author is giving their opinion/experience, and this does not match mine
I think my concern is that the first two bullet points under ‘downvotes’ seem very different from the bottom two.[1] It feels, to me, that we rarely see posts that are highly upvoted but also have significant disagreevotes.
So I don’t have a solution for this apart from some half-baked ideas, but wonder what the Forum team’s perspective was?
I think in part I’m questioning whether the last two are valid uses of the downvote button.