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I think for many (most?) people that would just result in them always voting +2/-2. Because stuff you disagree with is wrong (-1), and wrong posts don't contribute (-1), and likewise for agree/contributes. At least those are the heuristics that were preconfigured in my irrational monkeybrain.

Also when someone does say something I agree with but that does not contribute ("most grass is green") I wouldn't want to reward them with a +1 agree either, just punish with -1 doesn't contribute.

>>Thiez+(OP)
That's not what I've seen in places it's actually used. Get a decent mix though I agree the directions generally correlate and you'll rarely have a negative in one without the other.

>>Thiez+(OP)
Then perhaps based on user's voting history, it could be calculated how likely a user is to always vote +2/-2, and how likely to actually differentiate between both axes. This could then be used as a multiplier for user's votes on the contribution axis.

It would probably require hiding comment scores though - otherwise it'd be easy to observe how the multiplier changes and game it.