It'll be hard, because many people see the arrow pointing down as an automatic "punish" button. And many people get the urge to punish anyone that expresses something they dislike.
Maybe have a downvote counter in the profile or something. So other users can see who systematically downvote others.
Maybe it's just my experience with Mass Effect, but those changes didn't stop me from doing a renegade femshep run, which was almost criminally fun.
I was thinking maybe an up vote arrow and red x for rules violations or out of place. Just include some kind of visual cue that "down voting" is not the opposite of "up voting" in its intended use really.
It'll be hard, because many people see the arrow pointing down as an automatic "punish" button. And many people get the urge to punish anyone that expresses something they dislike.
Maybe have a downvote counter in the profile or something. So other users can see who systematically downvote others.
You might be on to something there. Maybe just changing it visually might make a difference it would def be a interesting social experiment.
Maybe... I dunno, something like moral choices in Mass Effect? Your upvote/downvote ratio pattern would have an effect on your avatar/labels.
Maybe it's just my experience with Mass Effect, but those changes didn't stop me from doing a renegade femshep run, which was almost criminally fun.
I was thinking maybe an up vote arrow and red x for rules violations or out of place. Just include some kind of visual cue that "down voting" is not the opposite of "up voting" in its intended use really.