[HyperKitty] #68: RFE: Change like/dislike system

[HyperKitty]

#68: RFE: Change like/dislike system
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Reporter:  duffy        |      Owner:
    Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
Priority:  major        |  Milestone:  Beta version
 Version:               |   Keywords:
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 Some comments from the LWN article thread
 (http://lwn.net/Articles/596820/):

"The like/dislilke should be implemented based on personal preference not
 controlled by majority..."

"Advogato's diary ratings got that right, based on its trust metric:
 http://advogato.org/trust-metric.html"

" The problem with upvote/downvote/karma systems is that they allow a
 majority mindset to establish and stay established. Just look at the
 circle-jerks on Hacker News and Reddit (where clever algorithms have had
 to be tacked on especially to try to reduce the effects of group-think).
 Everyone with a slightly different point of view to the established clique
 gets downvoted, and downvoted messages are more likely to attract more
 downvotes. People don't click anonymous upvote/downvote buttons because of
 reasoned, civil thought, they do it as a deep, primal, emotional, self-
 centred reaction. They might do it because $famous_person or $alpha_person
 did. They don't think "does this add objective value to the conversation?"
 they think "do I agree with this? Does this person's literacy meet my
 standards? Do they use C or C++? Do they use emacs or vim? Down with their
 opinions!" People are awful. Giving them downvote buttons only enables
 their awfulness."

I wonder if it would be possible to swap out how we do the likes/dislikes,
 or at least sit down and re-think it. This is one area that has been hard
 to test out on the staging server.

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#68: RFE: Change like/dislike system
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Reporter:  duffy        |       Owner:
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  Beta version
 Version:               |  Resolution:
Keywords:               |
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Changes (by andyp):

* cc: anprice@… (added)

[HyperKitty]

#68: RFE: Change like/dislike system
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Reporter:  duffy        |       Owner:
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  1.1
 Version:               |  Resolution:
Keywords:               |
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Changes (by sumanah):

* milestone:  Beta version => 1.1

Comment:

I agree that this needs thinking.

[HyperKitty]

#68: RFE: Change like/dislike system
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Reporter:  duffy        |       Owner:
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  1.2
 Version:               |  Resolution:
Keywords:               |
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Changes (by sumanah):

* milestone:  1.1 => 1.2