- cross-posted to:
- jerboa@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- jerboa@lemmy.ml
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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I prefer seeing up vote and down vote counts separately and nothing else.
Intuitively, showing both the upvote and downvote count would display the full information. The total and the percentage can be derived from that (and yea humans are bad at maths but you'll be able to estimate well enough probably).
I also like showing both counts separately so that a +50 -10 post doesn't appear equivalent to a +100 -60 post.
Could you perhaps show some screenshots of how the different options would look? Preferably on both mobile and desktop. I think that would make it a lot easier to choose.
Up and down preferably, anything else is just worse.
Otherwise overridable by user preference would be great.
Even though we don't use it on this instance, I do find the up vote and down vote counts the most interesting and transparent
I voted (and I hope everyone else commenting here did as well, I guess comments alone won't be aggregated into the results)
1)Big score with up/downvote at the side, and also the ability to see the votes for everyone.
Or
2)Big score and the ability to see the votes for everyone
If the server's going to enforce this then I feel like the default should be total up and down, as all the others can be calculated from those two numbers by the clients. Other methods I would foresee be used by instances that somewhat wants to hide or fuzz the numbers, so that'd be an opt-in thing that defaults to maximum transparency.
Its a user-specific setting, not a server setting. And this is just a preference for the default, it'll still be configurable.
Upvotes and downvotes, but also add the YouTube lightsaber which shows the ratio?
I always want to hide downvotes but I get why that would be a bad default.
I just don't care to see them in any other way than sorting.
I honestly love the way Alexandrite does the interface on Lemmy.world. I used photon for awhile too, but the way Alexandrite does voting made a positive overall experience that was more pleasant long term, (a.Lemmy.world & p.lemmy.world). Alexandrite simply ignores the down vote count and displays the total. Overall negativity is not clearly seen unless the count goes below zero.
Long term this makes a more positive overall experience across the spectrum of emotions in real life, especially for someone struggling through disability. The only way I would change this is to add a negative vote view in the ... extras.
All I want is that a cold color like blue is not be used for Upvote. Reddit's colors are better.
The colors I'd rather not hard-code, but have them be theme-dependent.
