I find that what is displayed affects how I feel and what action I am likely to take. When downvotes are displayed separately and prominently (e.g. lemmy builtin frontend) I am less likely to downvote a comment I find lacking as long as it appears to be in good faith, instead I will skip to and upvote other, better comments below so they “rise up”. When downvotes are hidden (e.g. Apollo and current Voyager) I am more likely to treat downvote as “disagree” to “push it down.”
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Well said.
Obscuring downvotes also obscures community reaction. Knowing how many people reacted negatively is useful.
I implemented this and am working on getting it merged. See https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/185.
Yeah, IDK about the other federated reddit clones but Lemmy lets you see the number of downvotes