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Considering upvotes and downvotes are used trivially, it doesn’t really make any difference
That’s completely untrue, it impacts what people see when they load the site.
Used by people when giving the votes I think they mean, not by the sorting logic to view posts and comments. Eg. Agree = upvote, disagree = downvote when in reality, it should be known that upvote = more visibility, downvote = less visibility.
yup, this. It can be “controversial” according to the algo but it’s just a guy being downvoted because they are unpopular, for example