Improvements to the "awesome" mechanism?

[joeytwiddle]

Sometimes I want to leave an "awesome" on a new user's dweet for encouragement, but there are two things that stop me from doing so:

1. My "awesome" for this dweet will have the same weight as an "awesome" for a truly amazing dweet. I would like to give the amazing dweet more exposure and credit.

2. The dweet will appear in my list of "awesomed" bookmarks. I don't want to clutter that list up with dweets I only upvoted for encouragement.

As a result, some new users who have made a good effort get 0 likes from me, and their dweet stays at level 1. This might discourage participation. (On the other hand, it might encourage it!)

If you have some suggestions of how to address this (or you believe it shouldn't be addressed) please do share.

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Some brainstorming from me:

A. Have a separate "bookmark" and "like" system. I can "like" lots of tweets, but only "bookmark" those I really want to show to friends in future.

B. Have an "awesome" button and a "really awesome" button, which gives two points instead of one. (Or name them "like" and "awesome" or "good" and "awesome", whatever.)

We could also combine A and B so only "really awesome"d dweets get double points and appear in my bookmarks list.

[lionleaf]

It's definitely worth thinking about some approach here, but I don't want too much clutter.

These serve as main incentives and can change the feel of the site considerably, so we should definitely have some discussion.

@sigvef mentioned in chat a suggestion that goes the other way; every user has just a single "favorite" they can pick (and switch around later) that is worth a lot more than an "awesome". Potentially get a few more as a reward if you have a lot of awesomes?

It could be interesting to play around with something like that.

More on topic: it might be worthwhile to completely decouple "awesome" and "save", to make it easy to create a curated list of saved dweets while still spreading out "awesome"s as you see fit.

Thoughts?

[sigvef]

On the topic of having a single "favorite": that's how the hearts on demos on pouet.net work, so look there to see how that could work.

On the topic of separate saves of dweets: could work (and then maybe do away with "my awesomed dweets"?)

[rep-movsd]

I think one option is - if there is a good effort by a new user and you feel an awesome is not due, maybe just leave a comment on the users profile.

There is already a "new" section to look at the latest.

My policy is to head to someones profile if they have a good dweet and look for other worthy ones to upvote