If the poll-maker can add choices later, and people are encouraged to modify their opinions in response to discussion, you may want to allow voters to change their votes later. OTOH, if you want the polls to be snap surveys of initial impressions, the totals should start out hidden, and votes irreversible, so votes are unswayed by perceived popularity.
With the proposed UI, there's still a problematic conflation of 'agree' with 'quality' -- both are clicks on the same 'up' icon. So I would again suggest using a new right/left vote that means 'agree/disagree', orthogonal to 'promote/bury'. Agree/disagree would have no karma implications, and would lend itself to a horizontal bar-graph of running results:
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If the poll-maker can add choices later, and people are encouraged to modify their opinions in response to discussion, you may want to allow voters to change their votes later. OTOH, if you want the polls to be snap surveys of initial impressions, the totals should start out hidden, and votes irreversible, so votes are unswayed by perceived popularity.
With the proposed UI, there's still a problematic conflation of 'agree' with 'quality' -- both are clicks on the same 'up' icon. So I would again suggest using a new right/left vote that means 'agree/disagree', orthogonal to 'promote/bury'. Agree/disagree would have no karma implications, and would lend itself to a horizontal bar-graph of running results:
(Previous suggestion of orthogonal agree/disagree voting: https://hackertimes.com/item?id=117196 )