This has come up many, many times before. In fact, it's probably the #1 request for changes to the site. Interstingly, what's blocking it isn't an argument as to why it's not useful (it is, but not as useful as you might think), why it will distort the voting/experince system (it will, but only in a positive way), that it would increase server load terribly (it wouldn't), or even that it would be difficult to write (it wouldn't be). So what's the blocker? A good name and label for the new type of vote. Note that the name has to be good enough to not confuse people terribly, even those who are used to the current scheme, and do not see the announcement. It has to work well with the current scheme of ++, --, and +=0 AKA positive, negitive, and null.

So, ideas on nomenclature?

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In reply to Re: A case for neutral votes by theorbtwo
in thread A case for neutral votes by dws

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