Maybe I want silent upvoting and downvoting to be disincentivized (or commenting with reasoning to be more incentivized). Commenting with reasoning is valuable but also hard work.
After 2 seconds of thought, I think I’d be massively in favour of a forum feature where any upvotes or downvotes count for more (e.g. double or triple the karma) once you’ve commented.[1]
Just having this incentive might make more people try and articulate what they think and why they think it. This extra incentive to stop and think might possibly make people change their votes even if they don’t end up submitting their comments.
Me commenting on my own comment shouldn’t mean the default upvote on my comment counts for more though: only the first reply should give extra voting power (I’m sure there are other ways to game it that I haven’t thought of yet but I feel like there could be something salvageable from the idea anyway).
Maybe I want silent upvoting and downvoting to be disincentivized (or commenting with reasoning to be more incentivized). Commenting with reasoning is valuable but also hard work.
After 2 seconds of thought, I think I’d be massively in favour of a forum feature where any upvotes or downvotes count for more (e.g. double or triple the karma) once you’ve commented.[1]
Just having this incentive might make more people try and articulate what they think and why they think it. This extra incentive to stop and think might possibly make people change their votes even if they don’t end up submitting their comments.
Me commenting on my own comment shouldn’t mean the default upvote on my comment counts for more though: only the first reply should give extra voting power (I’m sure there are other ways to game it that I haven’t thought of yet but I feel like there could be something salvageable from the idea anyway).