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		markdown on April 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Testing a few new designs that don't show the publ... 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.

EricE on April 3, 2021 | [–]

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

lawnchair_larry on April 1, 2021 | [–]

They do that too

markdown on April 1, 2021 | [–]

So why would they remove the feature if it worked better manipulated?

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