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I had forgotten how great it is to see the number of downvotes (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I've only used lemmy on Jerboa so far, so I didn't realize that was an option! Hopefully it gets incorporated into the app someday.

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