You’re correct, the entire system is already in place. The only thing that is currently missing is adding up all of someone’s ‘karma’ from their their posts and having it shown on their profile. Some of the apps already have this implemented since it’s easy to incorporate.
That’s not the only thing that’s missing. A total upvote count on my profile page wouldn’t be the problematic element that Reddit has. I would welcome a total upvote count on my profile page.
The votes are kept separate though, so you can see both the up and down votes. It gives you a much better picture of audience opinion, imho. Plus it doesn’t have an aggregate score system at all- if you delete comments, you also delete the upvote count. (This one I tested, it reset my whole count which I assume was a bug, but does tell me it gets recalculated, same as with posts.)
On Reddit, a comment with -1 could be getting up/downvoted constantly, or only two people might have voted at all. It’s impossible to know.
Plus, downvoted comments don’t get hidden/removed/deleted (at least not yet) so they are still a bigger part of the conversation.
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You’re correct, the entire system is already in place. The only thing that is currently missing is adding up all of someone’s ‘karma’ from their their posts and having it shown on their profile. Some of the apps already have this implemented since it’s easy to incorporate.
That’s not the only thing that’s missing. A total upvote count on my profile page wouldn’t be the problematic element that Reddit has. I would welcome a total upvote count on my profile page.
The votes are kept separate though, so you can see both the up and down votes. It gives you a much better picture of audience opinion, imho. Plus it doesn’t have an aggregate score system at all- if you delete comments, you also delete the upvote count. (This one I tested, it reset my whole count which I assume was a bug, but does tell me it gets recalculated, same as with posts.)
On Reddit, a comment with -1 could be getting up/downvoted constantly, or only two people might have voted at all. It’s impossible to know.
Plus, downvoted comments don’t get hidden/removed/deleted (at least not yet) so they are still a bigger part of the conversation.