Should we have a “total votes” in addition to comment points?
I'm often seeing my comments fluctuate between positive and negative, which is fine, but also interesting.. Am I the only one who'd find it very interesting to also be able to see how many total votes your "0 points" comment actually have?
I would like that. If a comment of mine is downvoted to -4, I'd like to know if the upvotes and downvotes are (0,4) or (36,40). In the latter case it could mean that I wrote something controversial but not nonsensical.
I would also like to see a list of the most downvoted comments. Would be interesting to know what the most downvoted HN comment of all time is!
Can't you derive upvotes/downvotes from knowing score/total?
score = upvotes - downvotes
total = upvotes + downvotes
Therefore,
upvotes = (total + score) / 2
downvotes = (total - score) / 2
votes are not the only thing that contributes to points, subcomments come into play, not sure how their points factor in