My suggestion is to show up-votes and down-votes separately. Naturally the post that gets no votes at all and post that gets 50 downvotes and 50 upvotes are of different significance and that should be visible.
This is indeed a valuable feature, and old-LW has something like it (it displays sum-of-votes and %positive, which is almost the same information but I think strictly worse than just displaying total-up and total-down). I would be surprised if it weren’t in the LW2 roadmap.
I think you overstate how censor-y the site is. And I am not at all convinced that making up/down votes separately visible does anything to make censors’ lives easier, so even conditional on your being right about that I don’t see why we should expect not to get up/down separation at some point.
My suggestion is to show up-votes and down-votes separately. Naturally the post that gets no votes at all and post that gets 50 downvotes and 50 upvotes are of different significance and that should be visible.
This is indeed a valuable feature, and old-LW has something like it (it displays sum-of-votes and %positive, which is almost the same information but I think strictly worse than just displaying total-up and total-down). I would be surprised if it weren’t in the LW2 roadmap.
I would be surprised if it where, given the censorship state currently this site is in.
I think you overstate how censor-y the site is. And I am not at all convinced that making up/down votes separately visible does anything to make censors’ lives easier, so even conditional on your being right about that I don’t see why we should expect not to get up/down separation at some point.