Getting away from the upvote/downvote paradigm is a great idea and it's still early enough in this net community's lifespan to get people to use it that way

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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah we can try 1, I'm down. The only thing is the numbers will be below each button, so the numbers may run in to each other a bit sometimes. Also in the comments, it will be much wider than the current voting button layout, with nothing below the side-by-side buttons. Maybe the comment text could be re-arranged to move more to the left to sit under the buttons, so the voting buttons and username are all on the same line?

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It'd be a little extra work, but a potential solution is just hide the point total number until you mouseover. This would have the added bonus of getting people to vote more independently. Plenty of people including myself see something that's highly upvoted and are more inclined to upvote for that reason alone. And vice-versa for things without a lot of points next to it.

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so the voting buttons and username are all on the same line?

That sounds like a winner for comments. I don't think we want to make the button area any wider on comments and impact the indent spacing stuff.