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RE: Add a "Steemit" button. In addition to Up and Down vote.
I'd caution about information overload and too many choices leading to non-participation. If it is very easy to click an upvote/downvote button, so you likely get very wide participation and wisdom of crowd results. Adding more requires more thought and will likely lead to less overall participation. Facebook studied for a long time before adding anything more than "Like" and now while there are more choices, like is still the easy and conspicuous default.
Also rating with "stars" is very unclear. For example, in many contexts (e.g., amazon marketplace, most movie ratings, etc.), a one star rating a bad rating (essentially a downvote).
Also rating with “stars” is very unclear. For example, in many contexts (e.g., amazon marketplace, most movie ratings, etc.), a one star rating a bad rating (essentially a downvote).
Actually we could do exactly this! Remove totally the down-vote button since it is clear that the first star is ALWAYS a negative vote, I can't think of any example where it has positive impact.... so we could for example: (please elaborate further)
1 "star" = -5% down-vote
2 "stars" = +5% up-vote
3 "stars" = +25% up-vote
4 "stars" = +50% up-vote
5 "stars" =+100% up-vote
no vote = neutral
that way(logarithmic) we are more "positive" weighted... we don't have the the negative psychology about down-voting but still "indirectly" (without knowing it) the community practically still down-votes bad content... (yep, facebook has a strong reason not to have a dislike button, we don't need to invent the wheel again and make costly researches when others already have do it)
How about a possibility to click the upvote from 1 to 5 times, with the green color of the button starting from very light to dark green. That would be only one button and also bypass the negative perception of 1/5 stars.
plus it would be a less problem for people with fat fingers :)
Maybe implement it only for the mobile friendly steemit versions and not for the desktop version?
What concerns me is how they figure out they have the option to click again the button?And what happens if they press the button 3 times instead of 2 times? I think problems like this would be solved if we can change our vote like I am describing on my response to this post https://steemit.com/steem/@dantheman/proposed-changes-to-voting-rules https://steemit.com/steem/@dantheman/proposed-changes-to-voting-rules
PS I would like to have an option to have a link for the responses (would need that now)
Maybe some visual cues would be enought to indicate the effect of clicking, for example as long as you see the upvote possibility, you can upvote. If they press the button 3 times instead of 2, they vote with 25% instead of 5%. When 100% is reached, the icon could change to a "you hit the ceiling".
When 100% is reached, the icon could change to a "you hit the ceiling".
or just transform to
and instead of steemit to see something like steemed