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TheOtherDave comments on How can we get more and better LW contrarians? - Less Wrong
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The idea is to make it possible to say (by voting) "even though I think you're wrong, I'd like to hear more". The problem IMO with the current system is that the people who vote "I think that's wrong" drown out the people who vote "I think that's interesting". It may be that isn't supposed to happen, but that seems to be what does happen. Would a "rhymes" button make sense? Sure - if you wanted to encourage rhyming posts. The GP wants to encourage contrarians and skeptics, so "like/dislike" and "agree/disagree" seemed appropriate. I haven't seen many of them on LW, but on other boards I really wish there was a "WTF? didn't understand your post" button, as I would press that one quite a bit. What buttons are best is a subject unto itself, but probably not worth discussing unless the basic concept is possible and worthwhile.
Conversely, the impetus to make the basic concept possible might increase if someone made a compelling case for what value it would provide.
Incidentally, I'm not suggesting that people should upvote/downvote based on "interesting" rather than "true".
I'm suggesting people should upvote/downvote based on "want more like this."
That means if I see a true comment, and I want to see more true comments, I upvote it because it's true.
If I see a well-written comment, and I want to see more well-written comments, I upvote it because it's well-written.
If I see a rhyming comment, and I want to see more rhyming comments, I upvote it because it rhymes.
Etc.
Being able to tag a vote to indicate what attribute(s) I wanted more or less of would admittedly be clearer in ambiguous cases... I do sometimes find myself staring at a downvote wondering what the reason for it was.
That said, I'm not sure it would actually add much value.