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Guidance when hovering over upvote and downvote buttons

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When hovering over the upvote and downvote counts next to a post, the score of the post is displayed, which is helpful:

Score showing when hovering over the upvote and downvote counts

However, the score is also displayed when hovering over the upvote and downvote buttons, which seems less helpful:

Score showing when hovering over the upvote button

Score showing when hovering over the downvote button

Would it be more helpful to display a message specific to the upvote button when hovering over it, and similarly for the downvote button?

Tailored messages

Initially this could just be a standard message for the upvote button, and a similar one for the downvote button. This would already be an improvement.

Later it could be customisable by each community, as the buttons may benefit from different explanations in different contexts. Some communities may want different messages on Meta than on the other categories. Some communities may want different messages for questions than for answers.

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Assuming a standard message for now, what should that message be? (2 comments)
Assuming a standard message for now, what should that message be?
Monica Cellio‭ wrote 3 months ago
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Assuming a standard message for now, what should that message be?

trichoplax‭ wrote 3 months ago
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Although a standard message might look odd for some communities, we could probably find something that would be a reasonable compromise for now, which I think would be an improvement over no message.

SE currently uses the following messages for questions and answers:

  • Upvote on question: "This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear"
  • Downvote on question: "This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful"
  • Upvote on answer: "This answer is useful"
  • Downvote on answer: "This answer is not useful"

The question messages look odd on some sites, such as Code Golf, where questions are mostly challenges.

Until we have per-community or per-category messages, we might be better off with something more generic, like "This question is useful".

To avoid the problem of not all question posts really being questions, we could have a standard wording that is used for questions, answers, and articles, like "This post is useful".