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[Poll] What should be Lemmy's default way of displaying votes? (take.quiz-maker.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 few days to see the result.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't think you'll ever get a concrete answer on this because different people treat even basic numbers differently none the less assigning value to them. I like upvoted/downvote view because I like being able to see what's controversial. It means a comment is both important to show a dividing line but also might be misleading.

Edit: note of course, I'm saying this while on an instance that doesn't even federate downvotes at the moment.