I think thumbs shouldn't be used for agreement, since this is a more specific characterization than relevance/quality/yay! of Karma (and the purpose of agree/disagree is partially to make this component explicit where it's well-defined), but +/- for agree/disagree will just be confusing.
My suggestion for agree/disagree are '==' (equals) and '=/=' (not equals) symbols drawn in sufficiently clear way, perhaps in circles.
My suggestion for agree/disagree are '==' (equals) and '=/=' (not equals) symbols drawn is sufficiently clear way, perhaps in circles.
So long as mouseover text (for example) makes it clear what on earth the == stuff means.
Mind you I suspect I will opt out of the agree/disagree feature via greasemonkey anyway. I tend to find that the judgement of humans is leaky and that the underlying cause of a negative judgement (be it disagreement with the comment, disagreement with other comments that are similar, disapproval of the subject or disapproval of the aut...
Design sketches
1. Notes on differences between these images and what we're planning on implementing:
2. Meetup widget in sidebar, listing the 5 nearest meetups occurring in the next 2 weeks, linking to:
(something like right-click & "Open Image in new tab" will help here)
3. New headers: