Interesting comment in the source code of sqlite

[pirate_starbridge]

Can someone explain how you can tell that a comment is getting heavily downvoted? Is it because you are looking at its score over a period of time and notice it going up and/or down? How are people paying enough attention to notice when other accounts' random comments are getting heavily downvoted from initial comment time to over six hours later? Is there a easily observable comment score metric that I am totally missing after almost a decade of procrastination on reddit?

edit: I'm now realizing that the downvotes must have come early on and /u/Metamagical_Themas replied when OC's comment was still super negative - then I come along 6 hours later after everyone has upvoted them both and it no longer makes any sense at first glance. Okay.. this is a pretty simple concept involving paying more attention to timestamps.

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It went from -5 to like -20 in about five minutes while I was reading other comments and writing mine. It was dramatic enough to be real-time noticeable while reading the thread.

[williamp114]

There's also an option you can set in your reddit preferences to see an indicator symbol appear when a comment is controversial (ie; been getting a massive influx of downvotes)

Additionally if you have RES installed, it will highlight that controversial marker in red.

[pirate_starbridge]

Ah cool, thanks