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How about expanding the votes into multiple kinds of karma. Make it possible to place several votes: "on topic/off topic", "funny/boring", "shit post", "solution to the question", "agree/disagree", "political", "Interesting", "Spam", "Original Content", etc.
Communities could create whatever rating is suitable for their forum.
Sort of like tags, but votable.
It would basically reward everyone for what they do (being a level 7 funny shitposter is something) but at the same time making it possible for others to filter out anything they don't care about. So instead of clicking downvote because of disagreement or upvote because it's funny, there would be an outlet for that in its own vote.
I feel that would make it easier to find quality content whether you're looking for serious debate or the hottest memes.
We'd need better comment filtering on individual communities, and it could/would be abused, but overall it would be facilitate the possibility of having different kinds of conversations on the same topic.
Sometimes I want to read funny stuff in serious topics and sometimes there is serious stuff in funny threads, and sometimes people write clever stuff that I disagree with and so on. One vote is just not enough.
So go full circle and recreate slashdot?
5:InsightfulI have mixed feelings on this leaning towards "please no, not this"
No rating system can substitute for good moderators that pay attention and users that report when needed. everything else devolves into toxic behaviors.
What is Lsashdot?
Yes, I like that, there should be like 3 dots with a up/downvote logo on top of it and when you click it you would have the options to like: -downvote: off topic -Upvote: Intersesting -Upvote: Original content
And so on