genuinely helpful and honestly meaningful (especially if you’re going to invest any level of your mental health in posts (which i don’t recommend but is natural if you try to post what’s on your mind)) being able to see like, oh even if 20 people downvoted me, 7 people agreed with me, i have seven fighters. it’s so much better to see that and get a fuller picture of how your comment was received.

i remember seeing reddit make that change out of nowhere for no reason and thinking…jesus, this is the beginning of the end

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    that was the idea, anyway. of course, anyone using a 3rd-party app was able to get the real vote counts. and it only ever worked when shadow banning was a thing, which they (mostly) stopped doing years ago. don’t know if that’s back because i left months ago.

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      11 months ago

      That was the idea, until Reddit realised the potential of manipulating vote counts for their own benefit.

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        11 months ago

        also true, but that’s a whooooole other load of spezshit1.

        [1] spezshit-- bullshit, but from spez