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!
Part of the reason youTube switched is because both the vote buttons did the same thing. Each one just measured engagement, which is why people always complained about their feeds being swamped with things they didn’t want to see. Essentially serving up videos for people to hate watch, but still watch.