Feels like there’s a whole more downvoting on Lemmy instances then reddit itself. Anyone else feel like that?
If You don’t agree; please downvote my comment/post. 😁
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I looked into it, I knew that raw numbers there are more downvotes on Reddit due to sheer volume, but I was surprised by the ratios too.
Back in the days I used Reddit, somewhere I’d heard that an 8:1 up to down ratio was the average for the longest time (~89% upvoted). So that was kind of my baseline when looking at this question. However, I wanted to do some !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world research out of curiousity so I dug into your query.
Enjoy these data tables:
Comparison of 10 Top Day Posts on reddit versus lemmy world set on All scope:
reddit.com lemmy.world All Top Day Score Up Down Ratio Up Down Ratio 1 41777 43976 2199 95% 984 30 97% 2 39541 42065 2524 94% 836 11 99% 3 37370 42466 5096 88% 807 6 99% 4 34465 38725 4260 89% 807 7 99% 5 33924 34973 1049 97% 799 26 97% 6 32029 34440 2411 93% 741 4 99% 7 29537 32105 2568 92% 710 5 99% 8 29332 34107 4775 86% 696 7 99% 9 27940 29411 1471 95% 671 6 99% 10 27606 30336 2730 91% 627 8 99% Total 333521 362603 29082 93% 7678 110 99%
Comparison of 10 Popular(Hot) posts on reddit versus Active posts on lemmy world set on All scope:
reddit.com lemmy.world All Popular(Hot)/Active Score Up Down Ratio Up Down Ratio 1 3931 4417 486 89% 803 26 97% 2 1296 1507 211 86% 627 7 99% 3 13939 14520 581 96% 751 4 99% 4 19790 21053 1263 94% 310 12 96% 5 20326 20955 629 97% 992 30 97% 6 17586 20689 3103 85% 279 3 99% 7 9171 9455 284 97% 814 7 99% 8 27940 29411 1471 95% 302 3 99% 9 591 768 177 77% 247 2 99% 10 9767 11357 1590 86% 292 7 98% Total 124337 134131 9794 93% 5417 101 98%
Comparison of 10 Rising posts on reddit versus Hot posts on lemmy world set on All scope:
reddit.com lemmy.world All Rising/Hot Score Up Down Ratio Up Down Ratio 1 80 116 36 69% 53 1 98% 2 112 117 5 96% 35 0 100% 3 153 155 2 99% 52 2 96% 4 97 120 23 81% 17 0 100% 5 552 581 29 95% 28 0 100% 6 58 58 0 100% 26 1 96% 7 295 301 6 98% 33 0 100% 8 93 95 2 98% 173 0 100% 9 78 79 1 99% 14 0 100% 10 204 213 9 96% 17 0 100% Total 1722 1833 111 94% 448 4 99%
So there you have it for posts, way more downvotes on Reddit than Lemmy. I chalk it up to some instances not having downvotes, and people don’t really care to downvote posts besides clickbait, spam, controversial topics, flamebait and stuff.
I know Lemmings like to downvote comments here and there but it’s harder to get a real comparison because I don’t know how to get comment upvote/downvote ratios from Reddit whereas old Reddit still has upvote ratios for posts.
Obviously from server to server things will be different (and 100% upvotes on servers that disables downvotes!) and also if you narrow your scope. But the trend is obviously there.
Link to image if your app makes the Markdown table look weird
E: Fixed methodology (because Reddit only showed me Score and %Upvoted)
Thanks for the quality response.
TYVM
uh… I’ll just take your word for it…
You seem like you know what you’re talking about
You’ve tainted the answers to your own question by requesting downvotes from those that don’t agree, so take my upvote and go tell Spez to suck it!
People generally vote less here because there’s no shitty karma system here. This also results in a significant reduction of the “hivemind” phenomena.
Everything is a little more genuine lm
Reddit boosts up votes so it appears more popular than it actually is.
Only on promoted posts, read product placements and shit
It isn’t just on promoted posts, the admins regularly inflate the upvote count and use bor accounts to make the site appear busier than it really is.
Downvoting has far less meaning on lemmy so there are far less downvotes.
Fewer
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“Fewer” is correct, but it’s wrong to correct “less” to “fewer”. Why? Because language isn’t dictated by an authority, it is negotiated through billions of interactions every day.
People say “less” to refer to countable objects and nobody is confused by it, so it is valid communication. Just because you had some English teacher mark you down for it in middle school doesn’t mean it’s wrong. You were just miseducated.
Even if we’re talking about strict technical semantics, 5 is less than 7. The < symbol is not called the “fewer than” symbol. “Less” can encompass the concept of “fewer”, so either is fine.
See: “10 items or less”
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The “less than” symbol is not limited to whole numbers.
Does it change its name to “fewer than” when it is used for whole numbers?
That’s rhetorical, we all know it doesn’t.
What I don’t understand is how you thought that that observation was meaningful in any way. I already said the concept of “less” encompasses “fewer”, so the “less than” symbol being used where “fewer” is also appropriate completely agrees with that idea, doesn’t it?
Does it turn into a cucumber if you compare a whole number to an irrational number?
“Let me answer that question with an entirely nonsensical question and also downvote you like a petulant child.”
Useless. I can’t have a conversation with this.
Yeah, that’s usually what happens when you’re wrong, bucko.
Feels about the same to me
Yawn.
I literally cannot recall the last time I downvoted something here…
But also people tend to be far more friendly here, or at least reasonable. Except for the outright trolls who I simply block and move on (on Reddit there were simply too many to count - basically every post and even comment I would just come to expect it almost guaranteed). I am on Kbin btw so probably a lot of the worst instances on Lemmy are already blocked for me.:-)
I agree. Lemmy is a fickle place
Thou shall not agree; or thou shall get downvoted! 😁
/S
(P.S. I gave You an upvote 4 real)
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Empty vessels will be empty vessels, only fueled by their own pointless rage. Huhuhu.
