[Poll] What should be Lemmy's default way of displaying votes?
[Poll] What should be Lemmy's default way of displaying votes?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14068273
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 week to see the result.
Upvotes & Downvotes is the best. Everything else makes me try to calculate them.
I think simple always wins, and that is Upvotes + Downvotes. It gives you the size of both sides of the coin, while it also allows me to kinda see "woah, this post is generating lots of engagement", whereas score + % may show a 2 + 50% and I don't really know what that means.
2 + 50% means that
51 + npeople upvoted and50 + npeople downvoted, where n is a natural number. Making the % (x): 50% < x < 50.50%, where x is rounded down to 50%.A smartass and wrong! You obviously messed up thinking OP's initial upvote wouldn't count towards the percentage. The correct formula is
n + 2upvotes forndownvotes, which makes0.5 < (n+2) / (2n + 2) < 0.505, solve for the smallest possiblen₀ = 100, giving us102 + nupvotes and100 + ndownotes
I like being able to see upvotes and dowvotes separately as it is done now.
Arstechnica has them separately but also shows the sum which could be an option. For example,
90 (93 / -3)but with green and red color.Having a show/hide sum in settings could help please more people but it's extra work for developers.
I'm on a Jerboa version which displays the number of upvotes and number of downvotes separately, and I think that's the best way of doing it. We're not Reddit; we don't need to do smoke and mirrors to obscure data.
I do appreciate you giving us options though.
One of the biggest complaints with reddit was the artificial up/down score that they changed your ability to see. Before, you would see and watch the up/down votes happen in near real-time, so it was easy to see if something was artificially pushed up or down. I would like us to at least keep up/down votes as an option.
Also great idea letting the user decide what they want. Kudos to the team.
Another up and down preference here. It really is the optimum way.
I like the way they're currently displayed. Upvotes/Downvotes. I don't think downvotes are negative, i think of all points as engagement points. I want nothing that obfuscates the reaction to my or other's words
I can see
Score + Upvote %being ambiguous. At the same time, I think the point of showing downvotes is to have an idea of the ratio of users that agree / find it useful, so I think a percentage conveys this information better than absolute numbers.So my vote is for
Upvotes (Upvote %)- this gives a general idea of how many votes there were; the upvote/downvote ratio; and the fact both numbers refer to upvotes reduces ambiguity.The easiest to grasp at a glance is
Upvotes/Downvotes.Though I understand how
Score + Upvote%would be useful, percentages are impactful when there's more than 100 reactions (which is uncommon).Please show upvotes and downvotes separately by default