Morendil comments on A Challenge for LessWrong - Less Wrong
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Micro-failure of rationality: we will be able to conclude very little from final vote totals on the parent comment, lacking a way to get up- and down-vote totals separately.
Sorting by controversialness helps a little.
Edit: oops, semantic failure.
If someone's looking for a genuinely high-utility thing to do in the spirit of this post, hacking on the LW codebase might be a candidate :-)
I downvoted it from 2.
Likewise.
The way this has been addressed in the past is by posting two vote counters, e.g. "vote up if yes" and "vote up if no" (with another comment for karma balance if people care). It is pretty clumsy.