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.
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.