Reddit tried to sticky this post for moderators around 12p CST today, and they’ve since tried to bury it. Thought it might be good to back up the link here.

  • saddlebag@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I see that negative vote count has been removed and now the post just says “0”. We’re living in the thin-skin age.

      • YouWorkForMeNow@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Actually not always. I remember the good ol’ days of early Reddit where you could have astronomically negative votes on posts. Back in the simpler times when r/f7u12 and rAdviceAnimals ruled. It was only a feel years ago when they changed how upvotes and downvotes worked

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        1 year ago

        Back in my day, they did have negative values. I want to say the EA Star Wars Battlefront fiasco was about the time they switched to hiding how very hated a post/comment is.

      • willeypete23@reddthat.com
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        They used to not even be combined. You had separate up and down vote counters. The they combined them, and you could go negative and even get a cross it it was controversial.