genuinely helpful and honestly meaningful (especially if you’re going to invest any level of your mental health in posts (which i don’t recommend but is natural if you try to post what’s on your mind)) being able to see like, oh even if 20 people downvoted me, 7 people agreed with me, i have seven fighters. it’s so much better to see that and get a fuller picture of how your comment was received.
i remember seeing reddit make that change out of nowhere for no reason and thinking…jesus, this is the beginning of the end
With the plethora of sorting options given here, the votes can truly be meaningless. Like if you sort by New Comments, the only thing pushing a post to the front page is someone making a comment on it. So the only stuff you see every time you refresh the FP is something people are actively talking in.
The numbers really only matter in Active, Hot and Top. And New Comments is a much better way of finding out what is both hot and active, even when it’s only hot and active because people hate it and are expressing how much they hate it.