I've often thought of making a web site with two voting mechanisms. Here's a million dollar idea you can have for free.
The two voting buttons on every post are:
Agree vs. Disagree
Important vs. Not important
Disagree/Important means that even though I disagree with this comment, it makes an important point, and I recommend others should read it.
Agree/Unimportant means that even though I agree with this comment, it doesn't add anything significant to the conversation, and you can safely skip reading it.
Any web site with only one voting mechanism will surely have different people with different opinions on what that one voting mechanism means.
This would be great.
Also there are often duplicate arguments within posts.
If users could use an HN function to create a 'Discussion Topology' (like on kialo?),we'd get alot of the position definitions out of the way.
If you cared just a little about the subject you would just identify your position.
If you had something actually new to say, you would argue for your position, or you could argue about which topology is best suited for the argument.
The two voting buttons on every post are:
Agree vs. Disagree
Important vs. Not important
Disagree/Important means that even though I disagree with this comment, it makes an important point, and I recommend others should read it.
Agree/Unimportant means that even though I agree with this comment, it doesn't add anything significant to the conversation, and you can safely skip reading it.
Any web site with only one voting mechanism will surely have different people with different opinions on what that one voting mechanism means.