I briefly had it display totals of each vote type, and immediately found myself having a bad experience whenever I saw downvotes. Although I can still figure it out roughly from the list of total-number-of-votes and total-score, it felt fine instead of upsetting.
Not sure if that generalizes but it’s the reason we have the current configuration.
I suspect your reaction is a common one, but not universal and I have no way to guess whether it’s the majority. I STRONGLY prefer to see my downvotes, and at times have sought to make posts that were controversial (got both up- and down-votes) rather than popular.
I briefly had it display totals of each vote type, and immediately found myself having a bad experience whenever I saw downvotes. Although I can still figure it out roughly from the list of total-number-of-votes and total-score, it felt fine instead of upsetting.
Not sure if that generalizes but it’s the reason we have the current configuration.
I suspect your reaction is a common one, but not universal and I have no way to guess whether it’s the majority. I STRONGLY prefer to see my downvotes, and at times have sought to make posts that were controversial (got both up- and down-votes) rather than popular.