Technologos comments on Support That Sounds Like Dissent - Less Wrong
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Why not just vote the topic up, and comment what you like? The score on the topic or comment will be high, even if there aren't a lot of people saying "you rock" in the comments.
Isn't that the same signal?
Voting the topic up can send signals other than agreement--I vote up articles which I find interesting but with which I disagree. Explicit (dis)agreement would reduce the noise in the up/down metric.
Also, stating agreement prior to a negative remark helps with interpretation without nonverbal clues.