I might love a part and strongly dislike the other part of a post or comment. Why can’t I both upvote and downvote? Double tap for a conflicted situation? Why am I restricted to the net of my opinions?
I will try to implement this when I have time, lol time.
You already can. Not voting will add 0 points to the counter. Exactly as much as adding 1 up and 1 downvote would.
This is true for communities that count upvotes and downvotes as +1 and -1 on a single score, but there are plenty of instances where upvotes and downvotes are totaled as two different scores. Not voting gives no response to the original creator, but double-voting like what OP is suggesting would provide +2 total interactions for users on the latter communities.
Checkmate, science removedz
I might love a part and strongly dislike the other part of a post or comment.
That sounds like a comment in reply would be a better option.
Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Not voting would do the same.
Upvote then comment on how you hated it.
I hate this comment
I hate this hated comment
IMO your best route in that scenario would be to leave a comment.
So, you want a quantum voting system?
You think that you deserve two votes, when everybody has just one? :-)
Even better. Have floating point +ive and -ive votes. You can put whatever value you want as long as the sum of absolute values of + vote and - vote is <= 1. And >= 0 of course
And while we’re at it, why is voting only one-dimensional? We should be able to vote a post to the left and right as well, to fully control where it is on the screen.
Could also have strength of a vote. Not just a +/- 1 but could also choose +/- 2, 3 (or more).
Not sure adding complexity to voting will make it better. Or more popular.
This post violates rule 5. Locking.
I made two accounts for this purpose.
