I think the submit buttons should be above the chat window, to draw attention to them.

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

Yeah, we could start everything at a score of 0 and not 2, and not have the insightful auto-vote.

Seems like the interesting/funny difference is to make it apparent that interestingness is more valued than funnyness; this makes no sense in comedy subreddits, eve if it's funny-sorted by default.

Agreed, we have a built in bias in this regard. I believe the intention here is to keep low effort content from dominating /s/all not that funny stuff is necessarily low effort. Within a comedy sub though, the funniest content should still rise to the top though and work more or less as expected. I guess insightfully funny things would be overvalued though which you find inappropriate?

Seems like a better idea to just make subreddits capable of choosing to have interesting/funny as 2:2, 2:1 or 1:2.

That's an interesting idea. That would let funny and insightful subs each encourage that kind of content. I think that would remove our bias from /s/all though.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Agreed, we have a built in bias in this regard. I believe the intention here is to keep low effort content from dominating /s/all not that funny stuff is necessarily low effort. Within a comedy sub though, the funniest content should still rise to the top though and work more or less as expected.

The problem then is that people like to see funny stuff on their front page, and may be subscribed to funny subreddits for that reason; perhaps you could have a default sort which gives interesting votes more weightage, and a fair sort which use the subreddit-specific vote scores?

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

Yeah that's not a bad idea. I think in the near term, chaging controversial to funny will solve the sort issue on front and all.