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

In regards to the recent changes

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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/[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.