Thank you for liking the dial/circle idea!
As for the claps, I do like how the Medium team is experimenting with it.
And to quote M.G. Siegler: “I suspect the real reason some folks are up in arms (the puns continue!) about clapping is that it seems like a silly and trivial thing.”
He also said: “But that doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea. In fact, I think that at a high level, it’s a very compelling idea masked by a twee feature. That is, the notion that you can have control over how a writer is recognized and as such, compensated in granular fashion.”
In my mind, that’s what the dial could do. That is getting more control over how stories are liked and how writers are recognized.
According to katie zhu of Medium, “Our system will evaluate your claps on an individual basis, assessing your evaluation of a story relative to the number of claps you typically send. All this will help the stories that matter most rise to the top.”
Maybe a dial would facilitate these metrics…
