I wish we could see up/downvotes like in the past. I think reddit may be artificially boosting some posts into the front page. You can see in the screenshot it has very little upvotes (or older) compared to the other top 4 posts.

I have no evidence other than noticing right after the election, /r/conservative seems to be hitting the front page every day. But I remember before the election, it only hit the front page once in a blue moon or so. Is this just me? Am I the only one noticing this?

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    12·
    23 hours ago

    Fwiw, if you use old reddit, posts have an upvote percentage (not counting any vote fuzzing). To calculate number of downvotes:

    NetScore / upvote% - NetScore.

    • mesamune@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      151·
      23 hours ago

      Unfortunately reddit has fuzzed their up/downvotes for many years now. So every reload is going to get different numbers.

    • Mickey7@lemmy.world
      6·
      21 hours ago

      this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025 9,822 points (83% upvoted)

      This is what the percentage is for this post. Posting this in case anyone is curious as to the percentage in agreement. Reddit groups that have a “flair” policy do not stop you from up or down voting a post.