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A post that achieves a high number of votes in both directions strikes me as a very interesting post that should be called to attention. In other words, a post that is at +/- 1 because of 50 or so votes each way, is much more interesting than a post that is at +/-1 because of one or two votes.
I would recommend rather than showing just the sum, show the total of both +1's and -1's separately. It's strictly more information than just the sum.
Seconded. StackOverflow shows this information, and it's frequently interesting.
Would you mind pasting a link for this? I'd love to know exact numbers.
Sure. Here's the most-viewed question on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processing-a-sorted-array-faster-than-an-unsorted-array
If you click the score on the left, it splits into green and red, showing up and down votes respectively.
Interestingly, there are very few down-votes for such a popular question! But then again, it's an awfully interesting question, and in SO it costs you one karma point to downvote someone else.
I agree. Reddit has a "controversial" sorting that favors posts with lots of up and down votes, and I prefer to use it for finding interesting discussions.