At present we have like/dislike, and agree/disagree, but nothing for this contributes to the type of discourse we want to see on the forum EA. I don’t think this is a major issue, but I’d love to see something like this contributes to making the forum a better place, or this detracts from making the forum a better place. I occasionally see a comment that isn’t making a claim (and thus can’t be disagreed with), but I which I dislike because it is tangential to the topic being discussed or it otherwise detracts from the level of discourse.
It might be that karma was originally intended to serve this purpose.
Very much agree. I use upvotes/downvotes to indicate what I would like to see more/less of on the forum. Making that clearer in the pop-up would be great!
I do think karma is a bit of a catch-all, and mostly I think that’s OK. We need a way to integrate a diversity of positive / negative sentiment into a metric, even if people have different reasons for their votes.
In terms of the tool tip, the other sites lack any explanation for their “upvote” or “like” buttons, and one of the reasons we have a whole explanation is to differentiate karma-votes from agree-votes, which other sites don’t have.
That said, It’s possible that reactions will help call out some of the behaviors we want to encourage on the Forum, like truth-seekingness and helpfulness. We’re also open to other suggestions for core reactions, but as mentioned in the post we do value simplicity.
At present we have like/dislike, and agree/disagree, but nothing for this contributes to the type of discourse we want to see on the forum EA. I don’t think this is a major issue, but I’d love to see something like this contributes to making the forum a better place, or this detracts from making the forum a better place. I occasionally see a comment that isn’t making a claim (and thus can’t be disagreed with), but I which I dislike because it is tangential to the topic being discussed or it otherwise detracts from the level of discourse.
It might be that karma was originally intended to serve this purpose.
this is how I generally try to up/downvote, but I agree that it isn’t at all clear. I now see that the hint is about how much you “like” this:
This seems like it can be improved
Very much agree. I use upvotes/downvotes to indicate what I would like to see more/less of on the forum. Making that clearer in the pop-up would be great!
I do think karma is a bit of a catch-all, and mostly I think that’s OK. We need a way to integrate a diversity of positive / negative sentiment into a metric, even if people have different reasons for their votes.
In terms of the tool tip, the other sites lack any explanation for their “upvote” or “like” buttons, and one of the reasons we have a whole explanation is to differentiate karma-votes from agree-votes, which other sites don’t have.
That said, It’s possible that reactions will help call out some of the behaviors we want to encourage on the Forum, like truth-seekingness and helpfulness. We’re also open to other suggestions for core reactions, but as mentioned in the post we do value simplicity.