up/down votes can be misleading

[garyjpaterson]

browsing the AC2 suggestions thread made me realise how misleading the voting system is in this instance; right now we have no way of knowing if a particular suggestion is controversial (ie a roughly equal amount of downvotes to upvotes) or simply few people care enough to vote at all, both resulting in a low "upvote" number.

And same goes for the rest, you kinda need to know what percentage of votes are up and down for it to be somewhat informative. 17 upvotes means absolutely nothing if you don't know how many people voted on it in total.

Two suggestions with the same number of upvotes could have a very different percentage of agreement.

 

[Gevatter]

I had the same thought today. It would be better to see upvotes and downvotes next to each other, or at least the current result compared to total votes cast. Maybe even color code them if you're feeling fancy.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

I am affraid that is not something our software includeds out of the box. Would require custom development I fear.

Update: seems we are not the only one wondering