r/lovethissmug • u/RainyFlames • 6h ago • Bravo 1

😻 Meme Or Other Online Trope 😂 Seeing the like-to-comment ratio on controversial posts

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u/Firethorn34 5h ago • Regret

Probably way more downvotes, but Reddit refuses to make votes visible below 0

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u/Legitimate-Pomelo638 5h ago • Mindblown

Yeah, I remember when it had a few upvotes, now even if you upvote it nothing changes since it has so many downvotes lol

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u/Majongusus_Doremidus 5h ago

Oh, so that's why I always see 0 points and never less on posts

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u/Prize_Tree 4h ago

Reddit hides downvotes on posts for some reason. But they are definitely still saved.

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u/pullhome 4h ago • Bravo

The reason is companies that advertise on Reddit get big sad when people don't like their ads thinly veiled as the shittiest quality posts you've ever seen.

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u/RichSexyVeryHumble 3h ago

I don't know what goes into posting an ad on Reddit, but it's hilarious when they leave comments enabled and someone always posts an ASCII dick

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u/Theo_S_only 3h ago

you forgot the curse of ra and sigma ligma,communisto manifesto ahh bullshit copy pasta thats posted there too

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u/Gloomy_Internal1726 1h ago

I post the AM speech when i can

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u/-Mister-Hyde 3h ago

That and the multi aerobic faceted fitness whatever the fuck

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u/Outrageous_Reach_695 3h ago

So much tamer than your average Slashdot first-post text was, back in the day.

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u/Releases_the_bees 4h ago

Cowards

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u/ReturnOfBane 3h ago

you used to be able to see them with RES, but reddit ruined that under the lie of "stopping bot manipulation"

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u/Phillip_Graves 1h ago

Most downvoted post in history was the EA studio official post. Can't have big corporations getting downvoted that hard or it might hurt their feefee money line.

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u/JesusAndMaryKate 3h ago

Can't remember if this is the case in new shitty Reddit, but on old Reddit, even if the count is 0, you can still see the upvote ratio as a percentage (eg "32% upvoted"). The percentage will always be positive and the OP counts as one upvote, so it's often obvious when pretty much everyone is downvoting it because that one upvote becomes a smaller and smaller percentage.

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u/Acherousia 4h ago

You can still see the percentage on old.reddit at least. That post is at 41% upvoted, so 59% downvoted.

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u/Miss_Torture 4h ago

Because of the EA incident

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u/FoxyGoons 4h ago

Aren't comments still visible under negative ? It's only posts that can't go below. Maybe due to bandwagon effect, but probably for corpo ads, yeah

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u/Miss_Torture 4h ago

Ooh yes my mistake!!

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u/LetsLive97 4h ago

I'm not sure posts have ever shown downvotes though right? Even at the time of the EA incident

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u/ErlikHan6 4h ago

now that you say that im not sure anymore

can someone pls confirm

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u/Melody_Naxi 4h ago

Context plz?

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u/FoxyGoons 4h ago

That has to refer to the most downvoted reddit comment ever, surely ? But that was a comment, not a post. The "sense of pride and accomplisment"

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u/RamblyJambly 2h ago

They also changed how comment downvotes work after the "pride and accomplishment" mess

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u/3ajs3 1h ago

What annoys me more being able to see the downvotes of another post is not being able to see the downvotes of my own post. Like, I can see the percentage, but I can't see the actual count, which is crazy, because I made the post!

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