Yeah I mean as long as it’s not displayed publicly, I don’t expect people to fixate on it too much. The individual post and comment vote scores provide plenty of feedback, there’s no need for a cumulative counter, aside from moderation reasons.

However, it is displayed on Mbin and PieFed, but their userbases are relatively small so it hasn’t mattered much so far. That’s one of the major things I think Lemmy does right from a design perspective, hiding that number from people unless they dig through the database.