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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by axce@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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!

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[-] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

at least Reddit showed the upvote - downvote balance, YouTube only shows upvotes, which is a completely useless number.

[-] Distributed@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Looking at you, beehaw.org

[-] MetalHead77@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

YT doesn't want your poor little feelings to be hurt.

[-] wersooth@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

personal opinion: not having downvote is the same as a participation trophy... pointless and hurts the original idea of "upvoting" (or the winner trrophy) just because a lot of people cannot handle the reality of the world.... just sad :(

[-] LostCause@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Same, first positive thing I noticed. This really feels like Reddit in the beginning–I like it!

[-] LootGoblin42@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

hm. The instance I'm on, lemmy.one, doesn't have a downvote button or a ratio. Can each server owner configure it to remove that? Maybe I should switch instances! Is there an easy way to export all of my communities and migrate to lemmy.ml?

[-] speedycat2014@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, servers can disable downvotes. Beehaw does that, for instance. I'm on lemmy.world which allows both. I prefer both because I think it helps silence bad faith participation with less active moderation, but I respect that some places don't want it.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It also enables bad faith participation such as down-vote brigading.

[-] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] GospelofJohnny@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm definitely on the fence about it. I agree about the bad faith participation with downvote brigading, but I also feel that having downvotes is, overall, a good way to gauge community agreement.

I think what I would like the most is a visible upvote/downvote percentage ratio. That way you could see not only the net upvotes - downvotes like on reddit, but the actual participation by the community.

[-] UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

You can see it by hovering over the counter and looking at the tooltip, but yeah having both upvotes and downvotes prominently displayed could be nice as well.

[-] Haunting_Tale_5150@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

its probably my favorite feature of lemmy/kbin

[-] rglullis@communick.news 0 points 1 year ago

What I really hope to see is some client-side algorithms that can let you track who vote-voted-for-what. This way, you (your client) could ignore downvotes if you detect brigading or rings and it could boost a particular post if it happened to be upvoted by a friend of yours.

[-] JustSomeGuy@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Everyone feel free to downvote me so you can see it in action

[-] ciphershort@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

B-b-but... Your karm- Oh wait. Never mind.

[-] Kovari@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I will literally be so upset if lemmy incorporates a karma feature. Such a useless stat that so many people obsessed over.

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Added a cheeky down vote for you 😉

[-] OhSnapKracklePopped@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk about anyone else, but the icons are completely/temporarily invisible on my end. I can hit them and they appear though, sometimes.

Edit: Adding a photo

[-] UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, its just lemmy.ml's servers being overloaded.

[-] UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

Quick, everybody upvote this guy! Positive bullying!

[-] 133arc585@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I really like that you can hide scores on posts and comments altogether. I don't like seeing the upvotes or downvotes. I don't want to base my opinion on a comment or post on what other people have felt about it, and so just not seeing their reaction to it at all helps prevent that. I don't think popularity is necessarily a useful factor to consider in judging a post or comment. This is one complaint I have about the Jerboa app right now, is that it doesn't respect the Hide Scores preference.

[-] LostRedditor@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I agree that score is not indicative of the quality of posts. However, it’s useful to measure what people who read this post or comment think of it positively or negatively or neutral.

[-] 133arc585@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but if you can see the score ahead of time (and especially if comments in the UI are sorted by score), all it does it create an echo-chamber. It's self-reinforcing. If the post's score only showed after you up/down-voted and then you couldn't change your vote, that'd be entirely different (not perfect either).

I also don't care if other people found a post "positive" or "negative" or "neutral" in general. Truthful, well thought-out comments get downvoted into oblivion despite being true, simply because they aren't mainstream views. Likewise, mainstream views with no basis in reality get upvoted incessantly, probably because humans psychologically like believing that their beliefs are true and seeing "confirmation" of their beliefs is seen as a good thing. This is what is meant by self-reinforcing echo-chamber: fringe or dissenting opinions get hidden, and "more of the same"/"towing the line" conformity get promoted.

[-] LostRedditor@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

all it does it create an echo-chamber. It’s self-reinforcing.

Totally agree. Also, I'm taking into an account that this is a view of people who have internet -> browse lemmy -> browse or subbed to the community (interested in) -> saw the post -> read comments -> default sort (i believe lemmy's default is hot which is new?) so definitely biased

I also don’t care if other people found a post “positive” or “negative” or “neutral” in general. Truthful, well thought-out comments get downvoted into oblivion despite being true, simply because they aren’t mainstream views. Likewise, mainstream views with no basis in reality get upvoted incessantly, probably because humans psychologically like believing that their beliefs are true and seeing “confirmation” of their beliefs is seen as a good thing. This is what is meant by self-reinforcing echo-chamber: fringe or dissenting opinions get hidden, and “more of the same”/“towing the line” conformity get promoted.

I stated that it's good to know "what people who read this post or comment think of it" regardless of post/comment truthfulness. It's useful (for me) to assess whether many people agree with, against, or it's controversial.

PS: This information wouldn't change my opinion about a post/comment.

[-] 133arc585@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I see what you're saying, but I don't understand why you find any value (or usefulness) in seeing what people think of it. What do you learn if a lot of people have agreed with it, disagreed with it, or if the opinion is split?

[-] LostRedditor@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, different post categories indicate different meanings (usefulness).

For example, in political communities, I can get a rough estimate of the majority of users' views/ideologies regarding a specific topic.

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