Nick_Hay comments on Issues, Bugs, and Requested Features - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Hay 28 February 2009 08:49:09AM 6 points [-]

How about buttons "High quality", "Low quality", "Accurate", "Inaccurate". We're increasing options here, but there's probably a nice way to design the interface to reduce the cognitive load.

Using the word "vote" seems broken here more generally -- we aren't implementing some democratic process, we're aggregating judgments (read: collecting evidence) across a population.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 05 March 2009 05:12:20AM 3 points [-]

I completely agree about the word "vote".

"High quality" / "Low quality" has good brevity, but for myself I'm still tempted to blend in agreement/disagreement with my ratings when I picture those words -- to regard comments I disagree with as "low quality". If we could have the question "Does this add to or subtract from the conversation?" surrounded by up/down arrows (or by "adds" / "subtracts"), I imagine myself voting better.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 05 March 2009 07:14:37AM 5 points [-]

For example, I just up-voted James Andrix's and Kurige's comments about their religious beliefs.

I up-voted the comments because they're good data, I'm glad the commenters shared it, and it looks like stuff more eyes should look at within the thread. But I hesitated, because "up-voting" gives the appearance of agreement. Rating Kurige's comment "high quality" feels a bit similar, like calling it "high quality reasoning". But clicking up-arrow next to the question "Does this add to the conversation?" would feel obvious, to me in this case.