Comment by Retrogamer5421 on 07/01/2025 at 00:57 UTC

18 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)

View submission: Should downvoters have to explain?

I don't think users should have to give a reason every time they downvote something, but I think that Reddit should show upvotes and downvotes as separate numbers. This way, user opinions of posts and comments are more accurately represented.

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Comment by FBI-Watchlist at 09/01/2025 at 14:43 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

A long time ago this is how it used to be displayed. They started vote fuzzing things probably a decade ago.

From what I understand they switched and highly interacted with comments/posts aren't even an exact calculation of upvotes - downvotes but that they fuzzed them a bit.

Comment by JasonGD1982 at 07/01/2025 at 01:19 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

That's the RES use to work but then I think something happened and it wasn't accurate anymore just like the upvotes but it use to be really nice. Seeing a comment with -24 is different than seeing 104 up 128 down. Makes it seem more nuanced