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Separate upvotes and downvotes in the vote summary daily totals

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In the vote summary page the votes received for each day are listed (both upvotes and downvotes), and there is also a total next to the date. This allows seeing at a glance how many votes were received on a given date even before expanding the full breakdown:

Vote summary for a day plus the expanded breakdown

At present this total combines upvotes and downvotes into a single number. I would find it useful to have this number split into total upvotes and total downvotes, similarly to how the votes are listed in the breakdown. So in this example the total would show as "+2 -1" rather than just "+1".

Very far from urgent, just raising to keep track of this for future reference.

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The change of Wilson score would also be useful (two upvotes and one downvote have a very different e... (4 comments)
The change of Wilson score would also be useful (two upvotes and one downvote have a very different e...
celtschk‭ wrote 29 days ago

The change of Wilson score would also be useful (two upvotes and one downvote have a very different effect depending on how many votes are already there).

trichoplax‭ wrote 29 days ago

I can understand having the change in Wilson score per question, in the expanded list of changes for a particular day, but I don't know how that would be summarised in the daily totals. I'm not sure summing the Wilson score difference per question would give a meaningful daily total change.

Would it be useful to have Wilson score change just per question, and not in the daily total?

celtschk‭ wrote 26 days ago

That would be useful, yes.

Trilarion‭ wrote 23 days ago

The Wilson score is not linear, so one would need to know the actual scores of the questions and if they change later, also the change in Wilson score would change (or not)? It depends if the order of the votes on a post matter (they don't for the Wilson score). I would just display the up/downvotes and see it as a proxy. If the number of upvotes is significantly larger than the number of downvotes, people probably make something right.