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1 I had assumed votes were private 2 If I don’t hear soon that votes are private, I’ll simply stop participating and return to lurking. I’ll eventually just wander off to the next thing that doesn’t expose my votes to potential bots and/or abusive actors.
Your votes are as public as your posts. I see you have no problem posting so I don't understand what the issue is.
The issue is that currently someone can behave as a shithead via voting, even if not comments, with little fear of reprisal or even discovery.
How does one "behave as a shithead via voting"? If someone decided to waste their time following me around Lemmy and down voting my posts it's not going to do very much.
The effectiveness of the shitheadiness is a separate matter from its identity:-). If someone were to say downvote literally everything you ever did, within seconds of you doing it, and regardless of content, then that would be a shitty thing to do.