@cody I agree with unifying a post or comment’s “score” into a single number, however I think it would be cool if the raw numbers were still accessible – for example, as a title/tooltip when you hover over the vote buttons, maybe. Or you could put both numbers in a tooltip on the unified number.
@garrettw87 Yes, detailed information would be visible in the “activity” tab or better “stats”. In fact, this feature already exists.
In this example, it’s not even about combining top-ups with likes, etc., it’s about unifying the user interface. Instead of buttons on the left in threads, on the right in microblogs, etc., it’s the same everywhere.
@cody I think it would be better to conceptually disentangle the up and down votes as they really aren’t all that similar both technically and socially.
Basically you need a “I want others to see this as well” button, and a “this place would be better without this” button :nkoThink:
@kris Upvotes and downvotes work and do the job, the problem is that they require a disciplined community and admins.
If the ratings do not affect the real ranking, users do not see the point in it, they get irritated and the service slowly but surely dies. It happened with digg, it’s happening with its Polish clone, wykop.pl, and it’s happened with several other counterparts.
Unfortunately, the natural course of things. The site becomes popular, money begins to appear, this affects the ranking through sponsored content and begins a slow decline.
upvote/downvote meets the needs you write about. If it works as it should. It is less important whether it will be an arrow, stars, hearts or any other object used to illustrate the functionality.
Though maybe thumbs up/down would be a better choice than arrows.
@cody My point was mainly that bundling these two technically and conceptually different interactions into what appears to be the same thing just with a positive or negative sign is not the best UI design wise.
