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I think we are at cross purposes. I was mostly talking about a dislike button. You seem to be back to the whole concept of a reputation system.
Reputation systems seem to be just generally good to me. How else are you supposed to automatically deal with spammers, flamers and other lowlife?
You seem more concerned with group-think and yes-men. Sure, but no big deal.
More reputation system would be better. Non-anonymous votes. Separate up and down vote counts. "Meh" button. Reputations for the posters themselves (rather than the sum of their comments). Comment like and dislike lists that can be made public. Vote annotations - so people can say why they voted. Killfiles that can be made public - etc.
Oh, yes, and while I am on the topic, let's not be faceless - bring on the http://en.gravatar.com/
Agreed, and I would add to that list a feature I've wanted to see for a long time on really large networks: complex filter criteria that support spreading activation networks of vote weight.
For example, a standard filter for "entries highly upvoted by people who tend to upvote the same kinds of things that i do, and/or highly downvoted by people who tend to downvote the kinds of things that I upvote," allowing a single system to support communities in strong disagreement with one another.
Relatedly, a spreading rule such that a new entry by a users whose entries I tend to rate highly inherits a high default rating, and therefore appears on my filters.
For example, a standard mechanism for "assemble a reading list with 30% things I would upvote for agreement, 65% things I would upvote for interest, and 5% things I would downvote for disagreement "
Etc.
Of course, someplace like LW is too small to need that sort of thing.
A recommendation system for comments would be fine. People who liked this comment also liked...
Discussion is probably about the number one collective intelligence app. FriendFeed and Google Wave didn't really make it - and commenting is currently a disaster. That needs fixing.