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POWhen creating a social voting system, should you keep track of downvotes and upvotes separately in the DB?
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With things like SO, Digg, Reddit, etc... Should one keep track of downvotes in the database independent of upvotes? Or should they simply have a "votes" field that is decremented/incremented based off what the user does with no persisting of that? How should votes be handled?
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When creating a social voting system, should you keep track of downvotes and upvotes separately in the DB?
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