###No, Showing upvote/downvote counts by default was declined for performance reasons (performing twice the amount of database queries). To quote [Jeff Atwood](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood)'s [answer here](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/1007/232872): > The total vote count (score) is denormalized, but the individual > up/down vote counts are not. > > So to display it on every post would incur 2 vote table queries * > number of visible questions / answers. Our DB is fast, but the vote > table is pretty massive, and not doing a query is always faster than > doing it. ------------- If you really want/need this, a userscript has been shared [here](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/53840/232872) which auto-clicks the vote counts once each second to get the totals.