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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] 3 points 2 years ago

Everytime I loomed at my most upvoted comments/submissions on reddit, it would just be populist low effort crap that I wrote.

The meaningful insightful comments that I wrote barely got more than a handful of votes.

The voting system really isn't that indicative of anything in my opinion, other than how willing we are to lower ourselves to pander to the lowest common denominator.