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Reddit should show upvotes and downvotes separately
- atticora 3y agoSo should Hacker News. As is a comment with 2 up and 0 down votes looks the same as one with 102 up 100 down.
- beardyw 3y agoI have had that thought, being aware of some back and forth in votes. But in the end it might tend towards - I had 100 upvotes, those downvoters are just idiots. Not sure what else it really adds.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoBut that's good. People should keep posting views even if the majority disagrees with them.
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- hyggetrold 3y agoHacker News used to show "points" on comments and it was removed quite a while ago.
- thisislife2 3y agoI prefer the suggestion to show a percentage instead of the raw count of upvotes and / or downvotes. Seems more meaningful and contextual. And less likely to contribute to a mob mentality like behaviour (where people in an online community tend to be swayed by the majority opinion and sometimes don't post opposing views because they fear the downvotes). .
- karmakaze 3y agoI'm much less concerned with comments, than with posts which don't have downvotes. This means a great story with narrow focus will have a small number of votes similar to a content-less one in an area of general appeal (aka noise). The thing I keep coming to HN for are those deep stories in things that I don't normally read about, but are written and discussed in a manner that keeps me reading and learning.
- morkalork 3y agoI'll just drop this here since it's interesting and related: https://simplemlhacks.blogspot.com/2013/04/reddits-best-comment-scoring-algorithm.html https://simplemlhacks.blogspot.com/2013/04/reddits-best-comm...
- hardcopy 3y agoLemmy does.
- pattycakes 3y agoReddit used to show it, they intentionally removed it maybe around 2015
- amadeuspagel 3y agoYoutube also used to show likes and dislikes separately, now only shows likes.