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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What I like about Lemmy is, I can see not only score, but also up AND downvotes. On reddit, I can see the score. On Lemmy, If I see you have a score 7, I can also see you have 10 upvotes and 3 downvotes. 10-3=7, and I can get a better idea if a comment is controversial, or popular.

Your post, that I'm replying to has 69 (nice) upvotes, and zero downvotes. THIS IS HOW IT MUST STAY!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Reddit used to show downvotes, sort by controversial, and hide by variable net downvote totals.

Then someone in admin decided it wasn't good for business, so all the features got phased out.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Reddit has stopped being a good guy a long time ago.

RIP Aaron Swartz

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I want to live in a world where he lived and guys like Spez "killed themselves"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Boost doesn't do this sadly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Unless it's a setting I missed, same with Voyager.

Edit: I am as dumb as a bag of rocks. Couple comments down the chain and someone pointed out it's a feature on Voyager.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm not seeing it in Sync for Lemmy either

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Which client? Voyager doesn't show this AFAIK

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Settings > Appearance > Other (at the bottom) > Display Votes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Omg thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's in the settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Reddit also has vote fuzzing where you can get the number of votes, but it's always manipulated for some reason.

I don't understand the point, and tbh it's a serious case of social media mind fuckery. It's a real problem for anyone who creates an incredibly specific subreddit for use by a group and then everyone is left wondering who keeps downvoting them. That can have real life consequences for anyone who doesn't understand what is happening.