I believe that not being able to see the "upvotes" on each comment is a good thing, and really cools down a lot of the intense vibes. People place way to much emphasis on this number, and I'm glad we don't have them here. Also good: submissions cannot be downvoted. Flagging appears to be a kind of pseudo-downvoting in that it causes submissions to fall in rank, but does not effect the upvote score. Compare with other sites like reddit or the stackoverflows, it really sucks submitting stuff there and then having it be downvoted to oblivion. Once you attach a number to something, it heavily biases your opinion of that thing, be it number of followers, or dollars, or upvotes, or whatever. There's probably some psychology experiment I should be citing here...