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Slashdot got this (nearly) right. You select from a list of moderation options like "Interesting", "Informative", "Funny", "Off Topic" etc.


Insightful - I agree, completely

Informative - I agree, but you may be full of shit

Interesting - I agree, stick it to those other guys

Funny - I agree, either schadenfreude or grits

Idealistically, humans would only vote based on content quality and not their personal opinions. But Slashdot is certainly the counter example on why this doesn't actually work


I guess the rationale for slashdot's voting "values" is that they are also moderated.

So "Insightful" as an "I agree, completely" on something that is not insightful may be metamoderated out.

It's basically impossible to do that if the value is only "+1".




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