Love, Hate and Apathy on reddit.com
Posted by on Thu, Apr 06, 2006 @ 04:02 PM
I’m a relatively new user to reddit.com (and social
book-marking sites in general).
One issue that I have (both as a reader and a writer of
blogs and other content), is that there is no way to separate or distinguish
articles based on whether the community loved them, hated them, or just didn’t
care.
Basically, all reddit.com tells me is the net number of “points”
that an article received (this is the “up” votes minus the “down”
votes). Though this is certainly helpful, and provides a coarse indication
of “interest” from the community, it would be helpful to know how
many people actually voted on an article.
For example, if a specific article got 10,000 “up”
votes and 10,000 “down” votes (for a net of zero), its likely much
more interesting than an article that got just one up vote (i.e. most of the
community didn’t care enough to vote at all). This is a situation
where love and hate are both more
interesting than apathy.
I’m guessing this would be a relatively easy feature
to add (would take probably about 2 minutes), and could be enabled through
preferences (for those that would argue that it “complicates” the
user experience too much).
In any case, just a thought.