Personally, I prefer Lemmy over Kbin because I hate karma and reputation points. I do not want to worry about downvotes, and Lemmy feels so fresh. I can post things that will receive lots of downvotes and not need to worry about losing karma.

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 years ago

    Agreed, Reddit used to show up/down counts but got rid of it and I thought that was a stupid choice on their part. Reddit also did other weird manipulations to the upvote count on posts which I’m glad we don’t have here.

    • TheDeadGuy@kbin.social
      8·
      2 years ago

      People tend to upvote and believe anything that already has a lot of upvotes. Seeing downvotes is a good red flag to warn users to not blindly believe everything they see with positive karma.

      I think the current system is harder to manipulate than reddit

    • Sunrosa@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      It is still possible through the API (for now), and maybe the official website, to view the percentage of upvotes to downvotes, but not the number of downvotes themselves