Should the "funny" vote be called the "fun" vote?

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[–]Dr_Funkenstein 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Reddit's shitty upvote/downvote system was inspired by Slashdot's voting system. You should keep the one you got, as part of your tribute to Aaron Swartz.

As well, "interesting" and "funny" describe comments. Would you ever say "that was a fun comment, upvoted"? But I would want to acknowledge a funny comment as funny. Like a post about a dog could be fun, but not funny.

I dunno, maybe it's just me.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Actually we inherited an upvote/downvote system, and that's what Aaron designed. And the insightful/funny is actually the system slashdot uses, that's where I got the inspiration from to apply it to a reddit-like system.

I see what you mean, but I think I actually would vote comments as fun if they're funny. Funny things are always fun as well, imo

[–]Dr_Funkenstein 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I used to love Slashdot.

I saw an interview with spez saying they were trying to copy Slashdot's voting system. I agree they did a poor job of it.