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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by markdown on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:25PM (#26656336)
What a silly conspiracy theory. If the wanted to hide embarrassing downvotes on certain videos, they'd just remove those downvotes, not the entire feature.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by EricE on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:07AM (#26678565)
When it's only the same kinds of content that has to have special treatment, that special treatment still calls unwanted attention.

So hence why the whole feature is pRoBlEmAtIc and must be removed :p

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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by lawnchair_larry on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:58AM (#26656809)
They do that too
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by markdown on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:23PM (#26666239)
So why would they remove the feature if it worked better manipulated?
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