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It would be nice for full posts to also track "agreement" karma separately from "upvote' karma. This is currently one of the highest value features to me (as epistemic feedback on my own writing / thinking) and means that I have a pretty strong bias towards writing things as shortform (where this is already implemented) rather than as full posts.

5DaemonicSigil2mo

The fact that it's at -11 is actually very funny: It looks like the collective intelligence of ✔/✗ voters on LW is reflectively stable. Users with more karma have super-votes that contribute more points. By consulting these two pages, we can see that the 7th person to vote on the post you saw was probably Raemon, johnswentworth, habryka, Zvi, or Kaj_Sotala. And: Eliezer Yudkowsky's strong votes are worth 13 points, while the theoretical maximum is 16 points. Highlighting parts of the message is already supported by the agree/disagree react icons.

I'm curious to hear other people's takes on the super-vote as all-or-nothing. Right now high-karma users have the ability to either lightly agree or put a heavy thumb on the scale, but as far as I'm aware there is no option to do a mid-weight vote.

Seems like having the option to choose how strongly to upvote in the mid-range would allow for more nuanced voting. Could be an opt-in setting so it doesn't by default result in an extra click tax for those who don't want it.

2icely2mo

wow I did not know that, would have expected it to just be a flat double 🐸 [...] I was aware and do appreciate that part of the reaction system too, but it's not the primary way people would disagree with a post the way that a mainline disagree would be. Probably there would be a lot who'd basically highlight the whole post anyway, just that the highlight reaction often seems more secondary or tertiary