cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14068273

We’re adding the ability to customize this in the upcoming release, but I’m wondering what people think would be a good default.

The 4 pieces of showable/hideable info are: Upvotes, Downvotes, Score, and Upvote %.

In Jerboa, I had a temporary default (until the next lemmy release), of Score + Upvote %, but people seem to dislike this a lot.

I’ll check back on this in a week to see the result.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    One of the biggest complaints with reddit was the artificial up/down score that they changed your ability to see. I would like us to at least keep up/down votes as an option.

    Also great idea letting the user decide what they want. Kudos to the team.

  • lugal@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Upvotes & Downvotes is the best. Everything else makes me try to calculate them.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I can see Score + Upvote % being ambiguous. At the same time, I think the point of showing downvotes is to have an idea of the ratio of users that agree / find it useful, so I think a percentage conveys this information better than absolute numbers.

    So my vote is for Upvotes (Upvote %) - this gives a general idea of how many votes there were; the upvote/downvote ratio; and the fact both numbers refer to upvotes reduces ambiguity.

  • ElTacoEsMiPastor@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    The easiest to grasp at a glance is Upvotes/Downvotes.

    Though I understand how Score + Upvote% would be useful, percentages are impactful when there’s more than 100 reactions (which is uncommon).