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Instead of rolling it all into two arrows, expand voting into three categories:

 Like    | Quality     | On-Topic    
 Dislike | Bad Quality | Off-Topic 

The reasoning for this is that on other sites like Reddit and Voat, users tend to use the votes as an "I agree" or "I disagree" button, despite the efforts of the admins to convince them otherwise. This stems from too much ambiguity in what the votes represent - and with a tag voting system such as this, those ambiguities could be eliminated, causing people to be much more critical with their votes. Users would get one vote for each category - for example if there was a quality shitpost in /s/Jontron, I would put votes into

.>Like<  |   >Quality< |  On-Topic    
 Dislike | Bad Quality | >Off-Topic< 

(Even though we all know that any internet page associated with Jontron is automatically a shitpost sub) Perhaps a "shitpost" tag could be rolled into "Off-Topic" to further reduce voting ambiguities.

Instead of rolling it all into two arrows, expand voting into three categories: ``` Like | Quality | On-Topic Dislike | Bad Quality | Off-Topic ``` The reasoning for this is that on other sites like Reddit and Voat, users tend to use the votes as an "I agree" or "I disagree" button, despite the efforts of the admins to convince them otherwise. This stems from too much ambiguity in what the votes represent - and with a tag voting system such as this, those ambiguities could be eliminated, causing people to be much more critical with their votes. Users would get one vote for each category - for example if there was a quality shitpost in /s/Jontron, I would put votes into ``` .>Like< | >Quality< | On-Topic Dislike | Bad Quality | >Off-Topic< ``` (Even though we all know that any internet page associated with Jontron is automatically a shitpost sub) Perhaps a "shitpost" tag could be rolled into "Off-Topic" to further reduce voting ambiguities.

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[–] PMYA 1 points (+1|-0)

I think this was suggested in the comments section of another post, and @InnocentBystander made the point that it would just give people more disagree buttons they can press.

I don't think it would be a problem now, with such a small userbase, but it will turn into one at some point down the line.