| On the topic of votes. At the time of this writing the comment I’m responding to is grayed out. Presumably due to downvotes from people not agreeing with the sentiment. I probably don’t agree to it either, but I find the perspective brought into the discussion to be a good contribution. I see this quite often, and actually tend to spend most of my votes “rescuing” comments, that at least shouldn’t be suppressed just for being unpopular. There is a kind of bias at play where dissenting opinions are held to a much higher standard of quality and thus having a higher chance for being censored. So I’ve been thinking if there should be a separation of quality and sentiment votes. Perhaps it would prevent some accidental censoring. Writing this it occurs to me that the bias would probably still be there though. So a more qualitative approach perhaps. One could imagine some mechanism by which the poster is allowed to iterate on the comment, based on feedback, before final judgement. |