Re^2: Proposal: eliminate down-votes

When we search, we naturally gravitate toward those threads and solutions which have positive votes, because these positive votes represent assent to what has been said.

You can't see vote counts without having voted, so I'm not sure how you gravitate to threads with positive votes. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's not how the site works at all.

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Re^3: Proposal: eliminate down-votes by jdporter (Paladin) on Jun 01, 2012 at 03:23 UTC
You can see the relative reputation of the direct children of each node, by selecting "Best First" under Note Configuration in your User Settings. (Of course, Anonymous Monk can't do this.)	[reply]
Re^4: Proposal: eliminate down-votes by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 01, 2012 at 06:20 UTC
Yes, you can see relative reputation, but you know neither the differences in reputation nor the endpoints of the scale. A thread could have only negatively rated replies, such that the top sorted node is the least negative. That's unlikely, but you can't know for sure.	[reply]