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It's useful to be able to say "I upvoted because". What are most well-understood equivalents for tick and crossvoting?

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Nathan Young

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Agreevote 

Nice, though it does imply disagreevote which is not nice.

ChanaMessinger4
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Disagreevote is very nice, it's what it is.

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Nathan Young
Then make an option and upvote it :P

Nathan Young

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x-vote

This one seems really nice to me. Quick to type. Unambiguous

Guy Raveh2
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I like this because it's shorter to type.

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Stephen Clare2
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If you say you x-voted something, does that mean you voted agreement or disagreement?

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Nathan Young
Disagree. Seemingly not unabiguous
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Stephen Clare
Ah, whoops, I was just confused by the title of the post and thought you were just thinking of equivalents for "upvoting". Without that priming, agree that x-voting sounds good and is intuitive.

Stephen Clare

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Plusvote

(as in, the equivalent of a "+1" comment)

Nathan Young

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Tickvote

Kind of unwieldy.

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Both this and "crossvote" use specific English terms which I think would be less understandable to non-natives?

E.g. in Hebrew we call those signs X and V (pronounced "eex" and "vee"), so understanding the word "tick" for that takes me longer.

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Nathan Young
x-vote and v-vote are nicer but I fear that they will not pass the community vote.
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Ben Stewart
I like x-vote but v-vote reads like downvote to me

Guy Raveh

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v-vote, to match Nathan's x-vote

Nathan Young

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Agree and disagree. 

I do not like these because you can disagree and not have x-voted. Just as you can like something and not have upvoted. Let's have different words please.

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Nathan Young4
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I can't believe you are gonna make me say agreevote and disagreevote. 

The wisdom of crowds is taking a beating here imo. 

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Habryka4
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I am sorry. That is what the LW team calls them, and what our announcements say. 

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Nathan Young2
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I disagreevote you in spirit. 

Can I suggest you change the tooltips.

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Habryka4
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Changing the tooltip does seem good. Will make a small PR. 

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Nathan Young2
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Can we submit issues to the codebase?

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Habryka2
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Yep, go ahead. It's a decent place to suggest features or record bugs.

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