28 points

I’ve never heard this. I’m pretty sure the internet has decided otherwise.

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This is not Reddit.

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Alright, hot take: This isn’t the case, especially on Lemmy/kbin. Since upvotes/downvotes don’t influence sorting, and scores aren’t totaled into a single number, there’s not really any downside to downvoting someone for just being a shitty opinion or something. If anything, it’s actively informative that this-many-people thought this guy was dumb, but _this* many people thought it was good.

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Wait, so it’s not supposed to be totalled?

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3 points

Some clients show a total next to the amount of up and downvotes.

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Yeah I use Voyager that shows the total

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Up and down buttons started off as “like” and “dislike” buttons. That is what it’s always meant, and is likely to continue being how most people use them

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I mean, you practically asked for the downvotes. (Also, if that is truely the intent, then they’ve made some critical errors in UX design)

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