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[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yes, good point. It will help with that for sure.

[–]MaximilianKohler 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Will it though? My suggestion would be to move the "fun" vote from below to side-by-side. New people coming from reddit will still likely see and use it as a replacement downvote.

Also, it would be nice if it could be disabled for serious subs. On reddit you can disable downvote with CSS but it doesn't work for mobile users: https://archive.fo/tJBJ2

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The problem with having the votes side-by-side is that there isn't space for the numbers then, or you get both numbers on the same row and it's visually confusing.

I think it can still be disabled via sub CSS but that's up to the mods of that sub.

[–]MaximilianKohler 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

or you get both numbers on the same row and it's visually confusing

I dunno, you might want to poll the community with that question/suggestion. I think it may be worthwhile to have some temporary confusion.

Also, there are votes on the side for the submission, but not the comments, so I wonder how it might impact the comment section.

I think it can still be disabled via sub CSS but that's up to the mods of that sub

Only for desktop users, and more and more people are using their telephones to browse the internet. It's a problem I'm currently having with reddit. There's no way to do stuff like disable downvotes for mobile users it seems.

And mobile users seem much more likely to vote without commenting, which makes the situation worse.