Multi-dimensional voting, a better defense against trolling?
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Would you consider Slashdot to have "multi-dimensional" voting, given their Interesting, Insightful, Informative, Funny, and (of course) Troll ratings?
It seems to have worked well enough there.
It seems to have worked well enough there.
I haven't looked much at Slashdot lately, but they have certainly put a lot of work into designing a good system for moderating comments. You are right that they have some dimensionality, and a way to "fade" trolls by adjusting your settings so you only see highly rated comments.
Still, for me at least, I don't find their dimensionality very helpful. "funny" and "informative" are rather broad categories. If all the content on Slashdot could be simultaneously ranked on a scale of "value to startup entrepeneurs looking for seed funding" and "online video content"...that would be useful to me!
I don't have any particular ideas about what should be done, but limiting your choices to "up" and "down" seems so narrow. Maybe I should jsut be happy it works as well as it does!
Still, for me at least, I don't find their dimensionality very helpful. "funny" and "informative" are rather broad categories. If all the content on Slashdot could be simultaneously ranked on a scale of "value to startup entrepeneurs looking for seed funding" and "online video content"...that would be useful to me!
I don't have any particular ideas about what should be done, but limiting your choices to "up" and "down" seems so narrow. Maybe I should jsut be happy it works as well as it does!
I was interested in this topic, namely, conversation theory or something with that sort of name, and read a little on it. Standard textbook stuff you can find in intro level linguistics or sociolinguistics.
Slashdot's model follows some theories surprisingly well. The designers really put thought into it.
Slashdot's model follows some theories surprisingly well. The designers really put thought into it.
Anyways, the simple up/down voting seems to reward trolls with lot's of attention (negative points) and prime real-estate (bottom of the page). Instead, why not add a "fader" where a couple of "fades" will turn trolly comments grey then white...
No social news sites I can think of are playing around with multi-dimensional voting of any sort...is there some good reason why not?