blacktrance comments on Open Thread February 25 - March 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vulture 26 February 2014 03:25:09AM 3 points [-]

Low priority site enhancement suggestion:

Would it be possible/easy to display the upvotes-to-downvotes ratios as exact fractions rather than rounded percentages? This would make it possible to determine exactly how many votes a comment required without digging through source, which would be nice in quickly determining the difference between a mildly controversial comment and an extremely controversial one.

Comment author: blacktrance 26 February 2014 03:29:18PM 0 points [-]

Or to just display the number of upvotes and downvotes.

Comment author: amacfie 02 March 2014 11:05:12PM 0 points [-]

(hovering your mouse over the karma scores shows that)

Comment author: blacktrance 03 March 2014 04:58:49AM 0 points [-]

It only shows percentages, not the number of upvotes and downvotes. For example, if you have 100% upvotes, you may not know whether it was one upvote or 20.

Comment author: ygert 03 March 2014 12:27:35PM *  2 points [-]

If a comment has 100% upvotes, then obviously the amount of upvotes it got is exactly equal to the karma score of the post in question.

Comment author: blacktrance 03 March 2014 03:23:53PM 2 points [-]

Good point. Math is clearly not my strong suit.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 03 March 2014 01:17:25PM 2 points [-]

Yeah, the only ambiguous case is when the percentage is 50%.

Comment author: amacfie 03 March 2014 10:41:58PM 0 points [-]

ya sorry, i misread things. showing the numbers of upvotes and downvotes would indeed solve the precision problem.