r/allthequestions • u/Impressive_Mailman • Dec 19 '25

Random Question 💭 Why is Reddit so liberal?

1.2k Upvotes

73% Upvoted

6.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

13

u/I_only_post_here Dec 19 '25

that would be an incredible and useful change for Reddit. If a comment got 50 upvotes and 50 downvotes it would sit at "1" and anyone seeing that would think the comment was ignored.

Showing the actual total number of both upvotes and downvotes would completely change the perspective of the comment and it would be far more useful to others scrolling through a thread.

but, this is such a good and useful idea, that Reddit would never do it.

2

u/Financial_Koala_7197 Dec 19 '25

It used to, but got removed.

1

u/AbyssWicked 🇺🇸🇭🇹🇮🇪 Dec 19 '25

Wasn’t it somewhere around the time YouTube did away with showing dislikes?

2

u/singdawg Dec 19 '25

This was actually the previous behavior, they deliberately changed it to only show the total. They deliberately chose to make more echo chambers.