I’ve told the LW admins before that I wish there weren’t a way to strong-agree or strong-disagree. Or, alternatively, I wish there were hover text that lets you see how many people have strong-agreed vs. weak-agreed vs. weak-disagreed vs. strong-disagreed.
I think ideally I’d also like to see a breakdown into karma buckets, so you can explicitly see how many veteran users vs. new users agreed or disagreed, as opposed to veteran users just quietly getting more voting power.
Maybe something like three buckets: one for people who (based on their karma) probably are pretty new to the forum (or post pretty low-quality stuff), one for veteran users with tons of karma, and one for users who are somewhere in the middle. E.g., an image that shows up when you hover, like (imagining a hypothetical comment with net 12 agreevotes):
(Obviously all of this would have to be only for future votes, not past ones, since people didn’t make their past agreevotes with an expectation that this would be public info.)
I don’t have a strong view one way or another on the topic of whether you should be able to use strong-agree-votes anywhere. I don’t know what others on the team think.
I’m quite excited about potentially developing or otherwise adding an easy-to-use poll feature on the Forum, though. It’s not an obvious part of any of our major projects for the near future, though, and it’s not clear to me that it’s worth prioritizing over other improvements (in part because I don’t know how much use it would get), so I don’t know when exactly we might get to it, if ever — but this is something that would make me personally happy.
I’ve told the LW admins before that I wish there weren’t a way to strong-agree or strong-disagree. Or, alternatively, I wish there were hover text that lets you see how many people have strong-agreed vs. weak-agreed vs. weak-disagreed vs. strong-disagreed.
I think ideally I’d also like to see a breakdown into karma buckets, so you can explicitly see how many veteran users vs. new users agreed or disagreed, as opposed to veteran users just quietly getting more voting power.
Maybe something like three buckets: one for people who (based on their karma) probably are pretty new to the forum (or post pretty low-quality stuff), one for veteran users with tons of karma, and one for users who are somewhere in the middle. E.g., an image that shows up when you hover, like (imagining a hypothetical comment with net 12 agreevotes):
(Obviously all of this would have to be only for future votes, not past ones, since people didn’t make their past agreevotes with an expectation that this would be public info.)
I don’t have a strong view one way or another on the topic of whether you should be able to use strong-agree-votes anywhere. I don’t know what others on the team think.
I’m quite excited about potentially developing or otherwise adding an easy-to-use poll feature on the Forum, though. It’s not an obvious part of any of our major projects for the near future, though, and it’s not clear to me that it’s worth prioritizing over other improvements (in part because I don’t know how much use it would get), so I don’t know when exactly we might get to it, if ever — but this is something that would make me personally happy.