Hmmm. Let's see if I can make everything clearer to myself, and then have an opinion.
So now you legitimize a disagree button, but quarantine the votes to another category. If there is to be a disagree button, which I still think shouldn't exist, it's probably the best system you could implement to make everyone happy. It has the nifty side effect of showing truly controversial comments, which I like, but I still think we are trying to put in numbers what shouldn't have to be. A good conversation or debate needs more than yes and noes. I would think that the best course of action for someone who disagree with me would be to actually comment and disagree with me, telling me why they do so. Having a disagree button pre-empts that very discussion, by giving an easy way out for the one who disagrees. A no, and move on.
If we are, as a community, to emphasize quality over quantity, which I think is the right way to go, a disagree system is not the preferred way about this I should think. Actually giving comments weight in the system would be a really nice way of doing things. You can add a disagree to this comment by commenting and selecting the -1 option before posting would be, in my opinion, a nice way of doing things. Comments could have an obligatory weight (selectable just before post comment, a +1 and -1), and larger and deeper discussions would naturally rise to the top. Which I'm still thinking should be the way we want to go as a community.
The Idea of moderating through the downvote I can get behind. I like it. It's simple, and effective, and breaks the downvote as disagree button mentality that so many users dread.
Hmmm. Let's see if I can make everything clearer to myself, and then have an opinion.
So now you legitimize a disagree button, but quarantine the votes to another category. If there is to be a disagree button, which I still think shouldn't exist, it's probably the best system you could implement to make everyone happy. It has the nifty side effect of showing truly controversial comments, which I like, but I still think we are trying to put in numbers what shouldn't have to be. A good conversation or debate needs more than yes and noes. I would think that the best course of action for someone who disagree with me would be to actually comment and disagree with me, telling me why they do so. Having a disagree button pre-empts that very discussion, by giving an easy way out for the one who disagrees. A no, and move on.
If we are, as a community, to emphasize quality over quantity, which I think is the right way to go, a disagree system is not the preferred way about this I should think. Actually giving comments weight in the system would be a really nice way of doing things. You can add a disagree to this comment by commenting and selecting the -1 option before posting would be, in my opinion, a nice way of doing things. Comments could have an obligatory weight (selectable just before post comment, a +1 and -1), and larger and deeper discussions would naturally rise to the top. Which I'm still thinking should be the way we want to go as a community.
The Idea of moderating through the downvote I can get behind. I like it. It's simple, and effective, and breaks the downvote as disagree button mentality that so many users dread.