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(Score: 4, Interesting) by DECbot on Wednesday May 20 2015, @04:17PM
An interesting implementation would be to make comment scores a sum of vectors. Let agree/disagree be a value of (m,0) and traditional moderation be a value of (0,n) where m is the magnitude of agrees (negative values denote disagrees) and n is the magnitude of the traditional scoring. Initially I would keep the method of moderating the same, 5 moderation points a day and scoring only one point per person per comment. I would also keep the agree/disagree mods independent from karma. This method allows the community to see not just the comment score (+5 interesting) but also see community reaction (+5 disagree).
Of course the use of agree/disagree might just reinforce the echo chamber.
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