Comment by riffraff
10 years ago
"think thrice before using your votes". I remember this being also used as the justification for not having clearly separated up/down buttons.
I totally disagree with it, fwiw.
10 years ago
"think thrice before using your votes". I remember this being also used as the justification for not having clearly separated up/down buttons.
I totally disagree with it, fwiw.
I personally think "having an interface that makes it nigh impossible to downvote when you meant to upvote" should be a prerequisite for the "think thrice before using your votes" goal...
Well at least they're doing something to address it now.
In any case, I still disagree with the lack of a reverse vote option, especially when upvoting also serves as an archival mechanism, and downvoting removes the opportunity to use that functionality permanently.
Right - it's not even about _changing_ votes. Just an hour or so ago I accidentally upvoted the wrong submission (on mobile), so now that's stored in my "saved stories"; nothing I can do about it.
It makes some sense - In theory you wouldn't cast your vote prematurely (after reading the first sentence for example).
In theory, but in practice do they have some evidence that people care more when they can't undo their vote?
Also it's a little unfortunate that the up-vote button can be easily mistaken for a link-to-parent button. I've lost count of the number of comments I've up-voted when actually I just wanted to know who they were replying to.