Putting up and down arrows on the front page would make sense if the content included lots of hugs and memes that readers are quickly opening and closing. For longer-form pieces, its better for readers to be encouraged to vote on the page in which they read it, from a UX point of view. Especially so since we place a premium on quality. We can see that the quality of the most upvoted posts is currently good. Given that we only have a few levers that influence writing quality, let’s not lose this one.
I agree that more votes would be useful, but this should be readily achieved if the overall audience increases. I think that the real challenge is to roughly double readership and participation, and that people’s work ought to be put to that goal. If that can be achieved, then the future of the forum would beore stable and the experience of using it will be more fulfilling.
Putting up and down arrows on the front page would make sense if the content included lots of hugs and memes that readers are quickly opening and closing. For longer-form pieces, its better for readers to be encouraged to vote on the page in which they read it, from a UX point of view. Especially so since we place a premium on quality. We can see that the quality of the most upvoted posts is currently good. Given that we only have a few levers that influence writing quality, let’s not lose this one.
I agree that more votes would be useful, but this should be readily achieved if the overall audience increases. I think that the real challenge is to roughly double readership and participation, and that people’s work ought to be put to that goal. If that can be achieved, then the future of the forum would beore stable and the experience of using it will be more fulfilling.