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One of the best features of lemmy is that it lets you see individual upvote / downvote counts (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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genuinely helpful and honestly meaningful (especially if you're going to invest any level of your mental health in posts (which i don't recommend but is natural if you try to post what's on your mind)) being able to see like, oh even if 20 people downvoted me, 7 people agreed with me, i have seven fighters. it's so much better to see that and get a fuller picture of how your comment was received.

i remember seeing reddit make that change out of nowhere for no reason and thinking....jesus, this is the beginning of the end

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That was the idea, until Reddit realised the potential of manipulating vote counts for their own benefit.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

also true, but that's a whooooole other load of spezshit^1^.

[1] spezshit-- bullshit, but from spez