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Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I looked into it, I knew that raw numbers there are more downvotes on Reddit due to sheer volume, but I was surprised by the ratios too.

Back in the days I used Reddit, somewhere I’d heard that an 8:1 up to down ratio was the average for the longest time (~89% upvoted). So that was kind of my baseline when looking at this question. However, I wanted to do some !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world research out of curiousity so I dug into your query.

Enjoy this data:

Comparison of 10 Top Day Posts on reddit versus lemmy world:

| | reddit.com | | | lemmy.world (All) | | | |---------|------------|-------|-------|-----------------|------|-------| | Top Day | Up | Down | Ratio | Up | Down | Ratio | | 1 | 41777 | 2199 | 95% | 984 | 30 | 97% | | 2 | 39541 | 2524 | 94% | 836 | 11 | 99% | | 3 | 37370 | 5096 | 88% | 807 | 6 | 99% | | 4 | 34465 | 4260 | 89% | 807 | 7 | 99% | | 5 | 33924 | 1049 | 97% | 799 | 26 | 97% | | 6 | 32029 | 2411 | 93% | 741 | 4 | 99% | | 7 | 29537 | 2568 | 92% | 710 | 5 | 99% | | 8 | 29332 | 4775 | 86% | 696 | 7 | 99% | | 9 | 27940 | 1471 | 95% | 671 | 6 | 99% | | 10 | 27606 | 2730 | 91% | 627 | 8 | 99% | | Total | 333521 | 29082 | 92% | 7678 | 110 | 99% |

Comparison of 10 Popular(Hot) posts on reddit versus Active posts on lemmy world:

| | reddit.com | | | lemmy.world (All) | | | |---------------------|------------|------|-------|-----------------|------|-------| | Popular(Hot)/Active | Up | Down | Ratio | Up | Down | Ratio | | 1 | 3931 | 486 | 89% | 803 | 26 | 97% | | 2 | 1296 | 211 | 86% | 627 | 7 | 99% | | 3 | 13939 | 581 | 96% | 751 | 4 | 99% | | 4 | 19790 | 1263 | 94% | 310 | 12 | 96% | | 5 | 20326 | 629 | 97% | 992 | 30 | 97% | | 6 | 17586 | 3103 | 85% | 279 | 3 | 99% | | 7 | 9171 | 284 | 97% | 814 | 7 | 99% | | 8 | 27940 | 1471 | 95% | 302 | 3 | 99% | | 9 | 591 | 177 | 77% | 247 | 2 | 99% | | 10 | 9767 | 1590 | 86% | 292 | 7 | 98% | | Total | 124337 | 9794 | 90% | 5417 | 101 | 98% |

So there you have it for posts, way more downvotes on Reddit than I chalk it up to some instances not having downvotes, and people don’t really care to downvote posts besides clickbait, spam, controversial topics, flamebait and stuff.

I know Lemmings like to downvote comments here and there but it’s harder to get a real comparison because I don’t know how to get comment upvote/downvote ratios from Reddit whereas old Reddit still has upvote ratios.

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