“Two-factor” voting (“two dimensional”: karma, agreement) for EA forum?

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As many of you know, on LessWrong there is now:

two axes on which you can vote on comments: the standard karma axis remains on the left, and the new axis on the right lets you show much you agree or disagree with the content of a comment.

I was thinking we should have this on EA Forum for the same reasons … to avoid (i) agreement with the claim/​position being confounded with (ii) liking the contribution to the discussion/​community.

Reading the comments over there, it seems there are mixed reviews. Some key critiques:

  1. Visual confusion and mental overload (maybe improvable with better formats)

  2. It’s often hard to discern what ‘agree with the post’ means.

My quick takes:

A. We might consider this for EAFo after LW works out the bugs (and probably the team is considering it)

B. Perhaps the ‘agreement’ axis should be something that the post author can add voluntarily, specifying what is the claim people can indicate agreement/​disagreement with? (This might also work well with the metaculus prediction link that is in the works afaik).

What are your thoughts...? [1]

  1. On two-factor voting for EA Forum overall

  2. On “post author chooses what the agreement target (‘central claim’) is”

  3. On whether the considerations here are different for EA Forum vs. LessWrong


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    Meta: wasn’t sure whether to post this as a link post or question post