Yeah, it's nice to be able to tell the difference between something with 2 upvotes because nobody cares, vs 2 upvotes because 400 people voted, and they're split 50/50.

Especially for one's own posts. Sometimes it's surprising the things that end up being controversial.

[–] iod@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One thing I don't understand about lemmy, I can see an overall score, but at least on desktop, for some comments I can also see upvote and downvote count separately, but not for all. And the comments are in the same thread. Is this something users control?

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Might be something related to specific communities? On desktop, and I can see separate counts when I hover the points here, and that's the case everywhere I'm looking.

[–] iod@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My bad, figured it out :) They simply appear when you downvote a comment. If you upvote, the counters don't appear.

[–] iod@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah ok. But I meant right next to the buttons.

[–] Percy@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't worry I removed the down vote

[–] iod@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

lol. don't worry about the downvotes, i'll accept them in the name of science

but i've also found out just by browsing different threads, the number appears when there are any downvotes at all on the comment without you downvoting. so if there are no downvotes and only upvotes the two numbers won't show up.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some instances don't allow downvoting at all, so I'm not sure if a visible downvote count would be particularly meaningful anyway.

[–] iod@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Yep. But I know beehaw doesn't allow downvoting. And being subbed from another instance I can still downvote and it shows up for me