[Poll] What should be Lemmy's default way of displaying votes?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14068273

We're adding the ability to customize this in the upcoming release, but I'm wondering what people think would be a good default.

The 4 pieces of showable/hideable info are: Upvotes, Downvotes, Score, and Upvote %.

In Jerboa, I had a temporary default (until the next lemmy release), of Score + Upvote %, but people seem to dislike this a lot.

I'll check back on this in a week to see the result.

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I think simple always wins, and that is Upvotes + Downvotes. It gives you the size of both sides of the coin, while it also allows me to kinda see "woah, this post is generating lots of engagement", whereas score + % may show a 2 + 50% and I don't really know what that means.

2 + 50% means that 51 + n people upvoted and 50 + n people downvoted, where n is a natural number. Making the % (x): 50% < x < 50.50%, where x is rounded down to 50%.

A smartass and wrong! You obviously messed up thinking OP's initial upvote wouldn't count towards the percentage. The correct formula is n + 2 upvotes for n downvotes, which makes 0.5 &lt; (n+2) / (2n + 2) &lt; 0.505, solve for the smallest possible n₀ = 100, giving us 102 + n upvotes and 100 + n downotes

I love this being a reply instead of an edit, ha.

Thanks for laying out what calculations would be needed, and why it may be a little harder to parse for a layperson.

I like being able to see upvotes and dowvotes separately as it is done now.

Arstechnica has them separately but also shows the sum which could be an option. For example, 90 (93 / -3) but with green and red color.

Having a show/hide sum in settings could help please more people but it's extra work for developers.