Hello!
Well first of all, for the downvote system, I had an idea yesterday, which I will repost here :
The upvote system already servers the purpose of weeding out the best content and sending it to the top. A downvote currently acts much the same way, but with added force, which really isn't all that useful.
Why not make the downvote give a reason for the downvote, which could be transparent to the owner of the comment.
Example:
This comment has 5 downvotes:
3x Harassing
1x non-constructive (does not contribute)
1x Bad Language
Reasons I see would be a downvote:
Harassment (covers hate speech and racism and others), Does not contribute to the discussion, Violent language, spam, Troll, Over self-promoting, Does not belong to the tribe.
The downvote system should work like a soft report system, instead of a disagree button. And since there is no disagree choice in there, you limit the times the system will be abused.
As for communication, I really like the transparency displayed by the admins here. The more involved admins will be in actually explaining things to their community, the less the risk of a backlash in case of a misunderstood move, but much more than that, I really like to see involved admins. It makes it seem much more important and personal, to me.
I was under the impression that a system very similar to what you are describing was already in place. When you down vote you are asked for a reason why you down voted that is displayed to the poster so they knew why they were being down voted.
I thought I read that somewhere. I could be mistaken though.
Hello!
Well first of all, for the downvote system, I had an idea yesterday, which I will repost here : The upvote system already servers the purpose of weeding out the best content and sending it to the top. A downvote currently acts much the same way, but with added force, which really isn't all that useful.
Why not make the downvote give a reason for the downvote, which could be transparent to the owner of the comment.
Example:
This comment has 5 downvotes:
3x Harassing
1x non-constructive (does not contribute)
1x Bad Language
Reasons I see would be a downvote:
Harassment (covers hate speech and racism and others), Does not contribute to the discussion, Violent language, spam, Troll, Over self-promoting, Does not belong to the tribe.
The downvote system should work like a soft report system, instead of a disagree button. And since there is no disagree choice in there, you limit the times the system will be abused.
As for communication, I really like the transparency displayed by the admins here. The more involved admins will be in actually explaining things to their community, the less the risk of a backlash in case of a misunderstood move, but much more than that, I really like to see involved admins. It makes it seem much more important and personal, to me.
I was under the impression that a system very similar to what you are describing was already in place. When you down vote you are asked for a reason why you down voted that is displayed to the poster so they knew why they were being down voted.
I thought I read that somewhere. I could be mistaken though.
I test downvoted you, and the upvoted you after to balance, but the only thing that happens is your get -1, and nothing popped up.
As mentioned above categorization of downvotes only applies to snaps, not text posts or comments.
Yeah, I saw it just after replying. Thanks for the update!
You're welcome!