Comment by founderling

The private upvote counts are one of the few things I dislike about Hacker News.

It feels like the system is hiding information from me that I would find interesting and that I could use to reason about the world.

I would find it even more interesting if not only the upvotes would be public but also who upvoted.

And for downvotes it could be an interesting experiment to make a statement mandatory explaining why one downvoted.

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