Maybe -- I mean that the new display treats users like children by assuming that they are better off not having certain information because they "can't handle the truth."
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I mean that the new display treats users like children by assuming that they
are better off not having certain information because they "can't handle the
truth."
To some extent, I suppose. But it was more that we treat users like children
because a bunch of us were quite tired of the many years of endless whining
like little children that users were doing over and over again (but that
still misses much of the picture). But I suspect that proof of childishness
won't ease your annoyance with perceived paternalism. After all, surely
you aren't a child. I don't actually personally think you are a
child. But your node actually demonstrates how you are likely a very good
example of somebody who should not be obsessing about details about these
very small numbers of downvotes on many of your nodes.
But, before we get into that, let us dispense with the most important point:
You used to be able to see the exact vote totals; now you can't.
Utter bullocks. In point of fact, the public call to avoid showing
"insignificant" downvotes predates the implementation of the ability to see
anything but the singular sum by years. The only site change that was
made was to show more information (and that change was made years
ago).
So, now that your primary thesis has been declared in error, are we done? I
guess not.
This is annoyingly paternalistic
The frequent whining was more annoying, IMO. If you can get everybody to
always act like mature adults (which means no whining, IMO), then we can
start treating everybody like mature adults in more ways. Or, if you can
devise a clever CAPTCHA to distinguishing those "who can handle the (useless
and misleading) 'truth'" (adults like you) from those who will whine about
it...
In the mean time, one of the things I'm most happy with in regard to site
changes is that it feels to me like there is much less whining about downvoting
in the last couple of years (most of the mentions of downvoting in the past 2+
years have been actually due to complaining about trolling and spam, not
whining resulting from tiny numbers of downvotes). And I think some
of that is the result of a quite a few mostly quite minor changes that I have
helped to make that I guessed could reduce how much the site encourages such
whining. I'm actually a bit shocked at how well it (and other things) seems
to have worked on that front.
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Oh. Maybe.
paternalistic: benevolent but sometimes intrusive
patronizing: treating others with condescension
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