Lemmy

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+down. Can't say I'm a fan of the %

Up + Down. That way you can't use trolling/harassment to massage the perception of a post.

Put it this way: Do you want the nazis who downvote everything left of Hitler to have any sway over a conversation?

Personally I like upvotes/downvotes. Both are pretty useful information to have and those are the two numbers that my brain translates most cleanly into seeing what's going on.

Also I want to put in my perennial pitch for the software to display a popup or something the first time you vote, saying hey warning your votes are not private on any federated software! Don't vote with an expectation of privacy.

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

Anything but upvote % as default, because many instances disable downvotes.

I think score, then in smaller less noticeable text, upvotes and downvotes. I don't think upvote % adds much value as you have the information to calculate it already.

I think it should display only the score. But when I hover with my mouse it should show the upvote and downvote count.

The same goes to the mobile version, but instead of hovering with a mouse I can hold my finger on the score and the app displays the upvote/downvote count.

I like a more simple and clean approach, I believe this helps bring less tech-savvy users to lemmy.

The way it is in lemmy-ui now is fine.

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

I don't think you'll ever get a concrete answer on this because different people treat even basic numbers differently none the less assigning value to them. I like upvoted/downvote view because I like being able to see what's controversial. It means a comment is both important to show a dividing line but also might be misleading.

Edit: note of course, I'm saying this while on an instance that doesn't even federate downvotes at the moment.

I voted (and I hope everyone else commenting here did as well, I guess comments alone won't be aggregated into the results)

i prefer to see the total score as a primary, with the up/down score as a secondary (on both posts and comments). percent is really only useful on posts and could be counterproductive on comments.

You were right about score + ratio, and the complainers are a vocal minority.

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.

Upvotes and downvotes, but also add the YouTube lightsaber which shows the ratio?

Is this a lemmy-ui and thus a client issue or a lemmy issue?

I'm not really sure what any of this means but if something has one upvote and one down vote it should show that?

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.

Post rating is good already. Upvote button, score, downvote button. This could be same for comments, but horizontal. And on hover just show upvotes and downvotes individually as it's done for posts already.

Difficult to say until we've seen it in action for a while. Could we trial each for a while and then ask us again?

All I want is that a cold color like blue is not be used for Upvote. Reddit's colors are better.

As close to Reddit Is Fun (RIF Is Fun) as possible.

No percent... but have as non default option...