The better solution would be to display something like "This post has received N upvotes and M downvotes".
This is equivalent to saying "This post has reputation X". Right now, this doesn't exist (and, IMO, for good reason). I think to implement this would be to cause a bevy of popularity voting. I'd rather see each post stand on its own merits. Some indication that a given post is a troll would be fine, but giving out specific numbers is (again, IMO) not the best.

thor

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In reply to Re^2: Troll Warning by thor
in thread Troll Warning by Roy Johnson

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