UpTrust feedback: categories for trust feel way too vague
I want to first be clear: I am going to give yall a lot of feedback as long as I keep using this, because I have hope that it can be actually good. I broadly see what yall are trying to do and am excited about it, and hopeful that you will listen to feedback. Otherwise I would mostly leave. With that said, a rant:
"Uptrust this person for "sociology", "ethics"..." — these topics are WAYYYY too vague. Absurdly vague. Uselessly vague.
At least that's my first impression. For the particular comment I'm uptrusting, I would want to see something more like:
- victim-blaming
- collaborative mindset
- conceptual distinctions
- symmetry
- political correctness
...those are all basically keywords from the post, not hard to extract. And THOSE are topics on which I can actually assess what I think about the post. Is this good "philosophy"? My response to that question is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ at best, (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ at worst.
Those are also topics where I'm REALLY fucking interested in where people's intuitions overlap and don't, which idgaf about for "sociology", mostly. Or like, things are coming from too far away.
Likewise, if downvoting something is really going to work for bridging, it's... not exactly that I want to net say "less trust in this author". I want to say "this particular post actually got 8/10 things right but the 2/10 it missed make it dangerous." Someone who is incapable of even writing the 8/10 things right would have even less of my trust than that person, but I wouldn't even be voting on the topic because they didn't say anything about the topic.
I don't feel like I have a way to say much that is real or honest with these votes. Either option feels very misleading.
Comment below with what you think about the topics/categories/uptrust button!
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