I’ve been so used to judging a post just by its popularity on reddit, but it’s actually so much more useful to have an idea of the downvote ratio. I’m glad we have that here.
It was a scandal when it disappeared from YouTube, but I didn’t realize it was missing from Reddit too for much longer!
while that’s true, people will always find a way to be jerks. if people can’t be jerks with a downvote, they’ll express their jerkitude verbally, which is certainly worse. i just wish we could move beyond the point where a downvote (or a bunch) was enough to emotionally devastate a person-- or where people feel the need to do that to others.
this is such a nice place now, but, then again, so was reddit in the beginning.
I’ve elected to hide upvotes in settings, initially as an experiment that stuck because I really didn’t feel like I was missing anything without the counters short of prejudging what I was about to read. The area in the center of the Venn diagram of content that’s relevant to me and content that’s massively upvoted is, well, nonzero. But I’m not exactly going about my life using nonzero chances as my walking stick.