#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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