Have they ever (in the last 5 years)? I thought it's always a total amount type of counter instead of the way lemmy does it.

Tbf I was using a 3rd party client or the new ui so pardon if it's only the old ui.

Yeah the amount of posts I see just sitting at zero when all the comments are negative about the post is staggering

I've even down voted some just to see them pop right back to zero