This is one of the reasons why I'd love to see a more expanded method of reacting to content rather than simply upvoting or dowvoting; something like, say, user-side thread or post tagging, with things like "verified", "clickbait", and mood reacts like "happy" vs "sad", and usefulness reacts like "solved, thanks" vs "closed as duplicate", etc. We need more and better axes.

(Axises? Axeses? ~~Asses?~~)

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Interesting idea, but how do you decide on what the universally-agreed on reactions are? Have too many and they may as well just be comments!

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago

A fair point that I admittedly don't know how to solve. The closest I've got to a "functional" idea is to focus on splitting the two (I think? maybe three) things that an "upvote" is interpreted as, and supplementing with also the opposite / counter message:

"I like what this post is about" (basically a like / heart / kudos)
"I found this information useful / verified / checked" (a more proper upvote)
(optionally) "I want this information to be more easily found"

Pretty much everything else can be a comment, as you say, but the purpose and reception of a message should also be as streamlined to communicate as possible.