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Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is that any different than what we see currently? We have no clue why people vote on our posts and comments one way or another

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is different in that the barrier to a user looking at your votes and choosing whatever perception they want is currently much higher.

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What barrier? There is no barrier. You see the number and you make a snap judgment. If someone wants to obsessively check my vote count they’re free to waste their time. If they stalk me I block them. I don’t see what this is solving .

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is about seeing what posts you voted on. Like if you upvote a post that someone disagrees with for whatever reason or you downvote someone's post they could see that and go after you for it. Regardless of why you did it.

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

People already do this based on people’s comments.

Shitty people are going to try and find ways to get under your skin all the time. None of these things we’re talking about solve that. What I am talking about is fostering a less toxic culture in the aggregate. Individuals will do what they do.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Right but we don't need to give them the tools to do it even more.

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What tools are we giving them? If anything downvotes are a tool they abuse already. May as well take it away

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The post is about giving everyone the ability to see how everyone else votes on individual posts/comments. For instance if you downvoted this I would be able to look it up somehow and see it was you as opposed to it being anonymous. I don't care if I get downvoted but there's a lot of wackjobs on the internet who might use that as a reason to harass someone.

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then block them. You think this is suddenly going to be a daily occurrence or something?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

No I don't but there's no reason to give them the option at all. There's no positives to votes being public.