Since the removal of the Reddit toolbar, I feel that we have seen a drop in high quality articles being upvoted because there is no easy way to upvote them anymore. Since you are leaving Reddit when clicking an article, there are no vote arrows anymore. As opposed a meme which is hosted on i.reddit, it is very easy to upvote because you are still on Reddit when viewing the meme.

That is the reason I think we have seen more meme style content being upvoted along with articles that are only read for titles, as opposed to high quality blog/articles. With the Reddit toolbar, you were still able to upvote the article while you are out of Reddit, because the buttons would always be there.

So please bring an alternative that allows you to vote on articles easily. Maybe the ability to preview an article while still in Reddit would solve this problem. Either way, I hope you guys brainstorm ideas to fix this problem and come up with a solution.

For those don’t remember, this is what the Reddit toolbar was https://www.reddit.com/wiki/toolbar

This has been something that has been on my mind for a couple months so I finally wrote this out.

Thanks