It was gone by '09 when i made my account at least, the good old days when their where still site wide mod drama like this one :D
Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.
rglullis@communick.news 2 days agoMy Reddit account is from 2006. I joined it when Aaron Swartz was still working there.
In the very early days, it was like that. Even it was an unwritten rule, people expected to see disagreement in a conversation, not in a vote count. Only spammers would get mass-downvotes.
Iceman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 days ago
It used to be that the best posts would have hundreds of upvotes and hundreds of down votes. They showed +100/-98 and you did mediately knew this was an interesting comment.
Then they stopped showing both up and down, and only showed the summation. 100 upvotes and 98 down votes is now +2, and this comment is now lurking among all the other +2 comments.
Showing the total instead of the ratio was the end of reddiquette, and the earliest Reddit enshittification that I can point to.