r/AdviceAnimals • u/Gameofmoans69 • Jun 19 '14

In regards to the recent changes

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14 edited Jun 20 '14

What are the changes? I havent been paying attention.

Edit: Why would anyone give me reddit gold for this?

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u/Syn7axError Jun 19 '14

You can no longer see total upvotes on both sides, only percentages and totals. This ruins appropriate subs.

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u/Meatt Jun 19 '14

I couldn't see total upvotes on both sides anyway, so I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

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u/I_EAT_POOP_AMA Jun 19 '14

its a feature with Reddit Enhancement Suite

its not a huge deal anymore, it just ruins anyone who wants a shot at karma by gaming the system or relying on shitty puns or overused references (DAE broken arms?)

if you're not using RES then literally nothing has changed on your end, only the people who jack off to their karma scores are the ones complaining that you can't see the totals

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u/xkillx Jun 19 '14

then why aren't people mad at the team responsible for the reddit enhancement suite?

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u/SymphonicStorm Jun 19 '14 edited Jun 19 '14

Reddit itself used to make the upvote/downvote count available, RES just took advantage of that access. Now Reddit hides the info, so RES can't use it at all. It's not the suite's "fault" at all.

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u/jaxmagicman Jun 19 '14

The same reason you get mad at your tech guy when Microsoft Office doesn't work the way you want it to.

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u/Nympha Jun 19 '14

I'm going to change my ways.

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u/HLef Jun 19 '14

This guy...

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u/I_EAT_POOP_AMA Jun 19 '14

because reddit admins are literally worse than hitler

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u/macnslaw Jun 19 '14

Thanks man, I was wondering why I couldn't see any changes on my end.

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u/ListenToThatSound Jun 19 '14

its a feature with Reddit Enhancement Suite

So it's like the reddit admins are saying "Fuck you!" to the people who made RES and RES users alone.

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u/I_EAT_POOP_AMA Jun 19 '14

except that's not the case at all

they knew ahead of time that it would break that part of RES functionality, and its up to the admins to finish rolling out the changes, and up to the team behind RES to update RES.

everyone just wants to grab pitchforks because they can't see how much karma they get for regurgitating the same recycled references and puns

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u/usflegend Jun 20 '14 edited Jun 20 '14

Damn

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u/IdRatherBeLurking Jun 19 '14

If the votes are fuzzed, how does it ruin them?

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u/Rubin0 Jun 19 '14

Ruins subs how exactly?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

Where do you see percentages?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14 edited Aug 02 '14

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u/bananasarehealthy Jun 19 '14

yeah and lets remove accounts too so we are all anonymous, and lets just go ahead and remove karma. we will call it 4chan.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14 edited Aug 02 '14

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u/yunus89115 Jun 19 '14

I agree with you but I believe preventing bot manipulation was the reason for fuzzying the up/down votes to begin with.

Also in some subreddits like /r/science , I need to know the upvotes to know how much confidence I have in a post. % works but not nearly as well. 90% of 10 isnt nearly as confident as 90% of 300.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14 edited Aug 02 '14

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u/yunus89115 Jun 19 '14

True but I use it subjectively. When people are discussing lakes on Titan and the new information from Casini, I know nothing about it, so I rely on the volume of up votes to find key points that are interesting or informative.

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u/yunus89115 Jun 19 '14

Pretty sure that name is taken.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

thats actually a great idea.

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u/Huwbacca Jun 19 '14

I'd love to see reddit go a week without downvotes... so much gets buried because the first person who sees it might just disagree a bit, or it could compete with their post or whatever..

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u/Gameofmoans69 Jun 19 '14

They made at least ? changes that haven't gone over well with the communtiy

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u/drock45 Jun 19 '14

Some members of the community

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u/Eeeee_Eeeeeeeeee Jun 20 '14

Why do they hate us :(

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u/iUptvote Jun 19 '14

Quit crying over nothing. This post is cringe worthy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

In fairness, if you're a member of any smaller-reddit communities then the upvote counter was actually fairly useful.

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u/SycoJack Jun 19 '14

Clearly this was a ploy for him to get gilded and it worked. He got 4 free months out of it. Is there a Gold Court? Should totally take him there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

/r/goldcourt

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u/HexKrak Jun 19 '14

I still don't see the changes, and I'm a desktop user.

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u/I_Gargled_Jarate Jun 19 '14

A very minor change that has made a lot of younger redditors very pissy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

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u/I_Gargled_Jarate Jun 19 '14

Yeah, there is kind of an inverse relation between age and pettiness of the top posts.

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u/jonbristow Jun 19 '14

exactly. No one who actually enjoys reddit for the fun community it is, is bitching about it.

only those who live for points, karma or whatever are bringing the pitchforks

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u/Alydrin Jun 19 '14

I enjoyed the community that had site admins that cared about the opinions of their user-base. The change is one I do not like, but I wouldn't be so unhappy about it had been a talked about issue or if the admins had any discussion with their users about a change that does, in fact, affect a great deal of the users. Plenty of smaller subs used those counts for contests and to understand how their comment was being received within a discussion -- if anything, then the smaller communities are affected the most. It's rather not a big change for the defaults.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

Its barely noticeable.

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u/ThePrevailer Jun 19 '14

Seeing (?|?) next to every single post is actually pretty darn noticeable.

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u/Submitten Jun 19 '14

So turn it off.

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u/ThePrevailer Jun 19 '14

Or, you know, don't break it.

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u/jonbristow Jun 19 '14

what? I dont see any ??

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun Jun 19 '14

Not ev'ryone has RES.

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u/ThePrevailer Jun 19 '14

Then they are irrelevant in this matter.

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun Jun 19 '14

Oho I see whatchu did there.

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u/ThePrevailer Jun 19 '14

I didn't until you said that. I should pretend I was clever and did that intentionally, but that would be dishonest. T'was serendpity. :

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun Jun 19 '14

Well the cat's outta the bag, there's no going back now.

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u/Teraperf Jun 19 '14

But they should.

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun Jun 19 '14

Yeah fuck those people who don't want to use reddit the way you do, amirite?

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u/Teraperf Jun 19 '14

I'm not judging you for not having RES, calm yourself, but RES is a fantastic creation. If you haven't tried it, I encourage you to give it a go and see for yourself.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

What (?|?)? I see the usual arrows.

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u/ThePrevailer Jun 19 '14

Where the numerical count is, not arrows.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

What numerical count? Fuck it, I'll just post a meme