On every lemmy app/instance I’ve checked, it seems that the post and comment scores on users’ profiles have been replaced by post and comment counts.

I often look at scores to quickly check a person’s credibility/involvement, and the count is much less helpful than the score in that regard. I could see this data maybe being removed because it was too server intensive to calculate, but maybe there’s some other reason.

I’ve searched and can’t seem to find any explanation for this change in release notes, but maybe I’m just not searching correctly. Does anyone know why this change was made?

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Score is about how you match the hivemind opinion, it has nothing to do with credibility. Be free, say your controversial dumb shit that you know people will disagree with and challenge them to a duel to the death.

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      1 year ago

      95% of history is probably written to suit the people currently writing or funding the history books, and that’s totally not a statistic I just made up.

    • Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Connect app thankfully shows me a score and individual comment vote counts. I want to see if a comment has a lot of people disagreeing, even if it’s overall score is positive. It’s an important indicator to fight missinformation.