SoullessAutomaton comments on Voting etiquette - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 05 April 2009 08:15:46PM *  4 points [-]

Thus, there seems to be 2 modes of voting: hard voting and soft voting. * Hard vote is supposed to push the comment all the way in the specified direction. * Soft vote is supposed to push the comment in the given direction, but only towards neutral rating, and not beyond that.

Yes. The quandary seems, to me, that the voting system is designed for hard voting, but in practice more people are using soft voting.

Comment author: Nick_Novitski 08 April 2009 03:34:42PM 0 points [-]

So the solution is either to change the system's design, or change the user's behavior? The latter seems unlikely, so what would a system designed to utilize soft voting look like?

Comment author: khafra 04 January 2013 04:44:25PM 0 points [-]

Hacker News solved the problem by not displaying comment karma, except to the owner of the comment.

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