I'd like to see the vote go along with a reason similar to Slashdot. It is a canonical summary of *why* you are giving the +1 or -1 that you are giving.
For example, I'm interested in promoting "innovative" ideas. With no ability to search on innovativeness, it's hard to find the ideas.
Being able to give/receive such reasons would give constructive criticism. It would be a shortcut for those who like to leave comment feedback.
Searching for LowHangingFruit would be cool for developers with some free time that want to do something impactful.
Some positive moderation would include:
Innovative - A great idea for a new way of doing things... shows "outside the box" thinking.
LowHangingFruit - Easy change that would make a big difference.
Obvious - Well, yeah why isn't this already done? Indicates a bit of surprise that it doesn't already work that way.
+0: DontCare,Funny
Negative moderation would include:
Unnecessary: There's already a good way to do that
Inconsiderate: would make things better for a few but worse for everybody else
WhatAreYouThinking: this idea would make things worse for everybody.
SciFi - that would be cool but it's not in reach of modern technology. "Intelligent Agents" for example.
TooHard: may or may not be a good idea but it would take so much blood and treasure that it deserves a -1.
Unintelligible: The submitter is much too clever to be understood
PureNoise: Annoying joke/sarcastic ideas
Abuse: not a legitimate idea, just an attempt to mess up the site.
I make no claim that this is the ideal set of reasons. But the idea would not be to just give a blank box though an "Other" might be useful at first to find out any categories we missed.
Note that the "Abuse" reason nicely covers the case of reporting abuse which there have been many brainstorm ideas about. Additionally, it may make sense for some reasons to go to a +1,0,-1 scheme. So you could make a grade of no effect but still give a reason.
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