I’d also like to see downvotes & upvotes shown separately, but want to keep their anonymity.
The big upside of a downvote is that it lets you quickly signal that a comment’s bad without having its poster follow you around afterwards or draw you into an unproductively time-consuming argument. This can of course be abused, but in LW’s one big case of downvote abuse (Eugine_Nier) it didn’t take long to see who was behind it anyway.
I’d also like to see downvotes & upvotes shown separately, but want to keep their anonymity.
The big upside of a downvote is that it lets you quickly signal that a comment’s bad without having its poster follow you around afterwards or draw you into an unproductively time-consuming argument. This can of course be abused, but in LW’s one big case of downvote abuse (Eugine_Nier) it didn’t take long to see who was behind it anyway.