• 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it’s nice to be able to tell the difference between something with 2 upvotes because nobody cares, vs 2 upvotes because 400 people voted, and they’re split 50/50.

    Especially for one’s own posts. Sometimes it’s surprising the things that end up being controversial.

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      1 year ago

      One thing I don’t understand about lemmy, I can see an overall score, but at least on desktop, for some comments I can also see upvote and downvote count separately, but not for all. And the comments are in the same thread. Is this something users control?

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        1 year ago

        Might be something related to specific communities? On desktop, and I can see separate counts when I hover the points here, and that’s the case everywhere I’m looking.

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          1 year ago

          My bad, figured it out :) They simply appear when you downvote a comment. If you upvote, the counters don’t appear.

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          Ah ok. But I meant right next to the buttons.

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              lol. don’t worry about the downvotes, i’ll accept them in the name of science

              but i’ve also found out just by browsing different threads, the number appears when there are any downvotes at all on the comment without you downvoting. so if there are no downvotes and only upvotes the two numbers won’t show up.

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        Some instances don’t allow downvoting at all, so I’m not sure if a visible downvote count would be particularly meaningful anyway.

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          Yep. But I know beehaw doesn’t allow downvoting. And being subbed from another instance I can still downvote and it shows up for me