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Q&A Categorical or criterion-based voting

This use case is already covered by reactions. The set of reactions available is community-specific, and I think is also per category. If you feel a reaction is missing but would be useful, bring ...

posted 9mo ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Canina‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar Canina‭ · 2024-02-26T12:55:17Z (9 months ago)
  • **This use case is already covered by reactions.**
  • The set of reactions available is community-specific, and I think is also per category. If you feel a reaction is missing but would be useful, bring that up in the community's Meta category, which is where community decisions are discussed.
  • **Votes should remain low-friction.** If people have to go through a convoluted process just to express their opinion about a post, we would almost certainly have much less voting, resulting in correspondingly less content curation.
  • Yes, plain votes are somewhat subjective; and that's a good thing. On the whole, it tends to even out and voting coalesces into some kind of numerical quality metric for the post.
  • **This use case is already covered by reactions.**
  • The set of reactions available is community-specific, and I think is also per category. If you feel a reaction is missing but would be useful, bring that up in the community's Meta category, which is where community decisions are discussed.
  • If a post isn't as clear as it would need to be in an ideal world, then leave a comment and request clarification.
  • **Votes should remain low-friction.** If people have to go through a convoluted process just to express their opinion about a post, we would almost certainly have much less voting, resulting in correspondingly less content curation.
  • Yes, plain votes are somewhat subjective; and that's a good thing. On the whole, it tends to even out and voting coalesces into some kind of numerical quality metric for the post.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Canina‭ · 2024-02-26T07:25:52Z (9 months ago)
**This use case is already covered by reactions.**

The set of reactions available is community-specific, and I think is also per category. If you feel a reaction is missing but would be useful, bring that up in the community's Meta category, which is where community decisions are discussed.

**Votes should remain low-friction.** If people have to go through a convoluted process just to express their opinion about a post, we would almost certainly have much less voting, resulting in correspondingly less content curation.

Yes, plain votes are somewhat subjective; and that's a good thing. On the whole, it tends to even out and voting coalesces into some kind of numerical quality metric for the post.