Feels like no matter what the system is, no matter how simple (single upvote) or complicated it is (lvx’s different votes and weights-per-community-per-user idea from elsewhere ITT - cool but not terribly practical-seeming), people are just gonna faceroll it at best, spam/abuse it as a general rule.

Possibly, maybe a tiny amount of people will even use it as intended.

Even Reddit’s system (quality/irrelevant) works in theory but nobody actually uses it that way, so it’s agree/disagree-or-just-fuck-you instead. You will not be able to educate users on the simplest shit ever (“upvote for quality”), let alone if there’s e.g. six different votes with different nuances. Even if you did make sure everyone knew the intended way, you would not defeat the general “fuck that lol, I do what I want” attitude. Even if you did that, it would only last until some guy sees something he disagrees with, and that’s a trillion times per second on the internet.

But with that in mind:

• Youtube used to have stars,
• plenty of systems just have the upvote,
• Steam has the supposedly useful “Useful/Funny/whatever” stuff
• Facebook does limited emojis in addition to upvote.
• some sites have tags apply to content (tags are love, tags are life) and each tag is then upvoted or downvoted for its relevance to that content