Interesting! Let me know if any examples come up (feel free to post here or dm). Ideally we wouldnât have the disagree button playing the same role as the karma button.
(to be clear, this is a very small flaw/âissue with the EA Forum, and I wouldnât really object if the people running the forum decide that this is too minor of an issue to spend time on)
A few little examples:
Peter Wildefordâs comment on this post âWhatâs the difference between a Content Specialist and a Content Manager?â currently has two agree votes. There isnât any argument or stance there; it is merely asking a question. So I assume people are using the agree vote to indicate something like âI also have this questionâ or âI am glad that you are asking this question.â
I made a comment a few days ago about being glad that I am not the only one who wants to have financial runway before donating. It currently has a few agree votes and disagree votes, and I canât for the life of me figure out why. There arenât really any stances or claims being made in that comment.
Ben West made a comment about lab grown meat that currently has 27 agree votes, even through the comment has nothing to agree with: âCongratulations to Upside Foods, Good Meat, and everyone who worked on this technology!â I guess that people are using the agree vote to indicate something like âI like this, and I want to express the same gratitude.â
Is this a problem? Seems fine to me, because the meaning is often clear, as in two of your examples, and I think it adds value in those contexts. And if itâs not clear, doesnât seem like a big loss compared to a counterfactual of having none of these types of vote available.
Thanks for putting these together. This doesnât currently seem obviously bad to me for (I think) the same reasons as Isaac Dunn (those examples donât show valueless reacts, and most cases are much clearer). However, your cases are interesting.
I agree with your read of the reactions to Ben Westâs comment.
In the question about my role, perhaps it is slightly less clear, because âI agree that this is a good questionâ or âI have this question as wellâ could probably be adequately expressed with Karma. But I also doubt that this has led to significant confusion.
In the reaction to your comment, Iâd go with the agrees saying that they echo the statement in your tl;dr. The disagree is weirder- perhaps they are signalling disencouragement of your encouraging Lizkaâs sentiment?
(Perhaps how perplexing people find agree/âdisagree reacts to comments which donât straightforwardly contain propositions maps to how habitually the reader decouples propositional content from context.)
Iâll keep an eye out for issues with this- my view is loosely held. Thanks again for raising the issue.
Interesting! Let me know if any examples come up (feel free to post here or dm). Ideally we wouldnât have the disagree button playing the same role as the karma button.
Sure. The silly and simplified clichĂ© is something like this: a comment describes someoneâs feelings (or internal state) and then gets some agree votes and disagree votes, as if Person A says âthis makes me happyâ and person be wants to argue that point.
(to be clear, this is a very small flaw/âissue with the EA Forum, and I wouldnât really object if the people running the forum decide that this is too minor of an issue to spend time on)
A few little examples:
Peter Wildefordâs comment on this post âWhatâs the difference between a Content Specialist and a Content Manager?â currently has two agree votes. There isnât any argument or stance there; it is merely asking a question. So I assume people are using the agree vote to indicate something like âI also have this questionâ or âI am glad that you are asking this question.â
I made a comment a few days ago about being glad that I am not the only one who wants to have financial runway before donating. It currently has a few agree votes and disagree votes, and I canât for the life of me figure out why. There arenât really any stances or claims being made in that comment.
Ben West made a comment about lab grown meat that currently has 27 agree votes, even through the comment has nothing to agree with: âCongratulations to Upside Foods, Good Meat, and everyone who worked on this technology!â I guess that people are using the agree vote to indicate something like âI like this, and I want to express the same gratitude.â
Is this a problem? Seems fine to me, because the meaning is often clear, as in two of your examples, and I think it adds value in those contexts. And if itâs not clear, doesnât seem like a big loss compared to a counterfactual of having none of these types of vote available.
Thanks for putting these together. This doesnât currently seem obviously bad to me for (I think) the same reasons as Isaac Dunn (those examples donât show valueless reacts, and most cases are much clearer). However, your cases are interesting.
I agree with your read of the reactions to Ben Westâs comment.
In the question about my role, perhaps it is slightly less clear, because âI agree that this is a good questionâ or âI have this question as wellâ could probably be adequately expressed with Karma. But I also doubt that this has led to significant confusion.
In the reaction to your comment, Iâd go with the agrees saying that they echo the statement in your tl;dr. The disagree is weirder- perhaps they are signalling disencouragement of your encouraging Lizkaâs sentiment?
(Perhaps how perplexing people find agree/âdisagree reacts to comments which donât straightforwardly contain propositions maps to how habitually the reader decouples propositional content from context.)
Iâll keep an eye out for issues with this- my view is loosely held. Thanks again for raising the issue.