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Bit concerned about the view votes option now available. (literature.cafe)

submitted 1 week ago by Lacanoodle@literature.cafe to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I mod a few communities and I can now see who has upvoted or downvoted any comment or post in the community.

You'd think any mod would like that data being available to find any issue user. But I feel like invasive with this.

I know admins have long been able to see this data.

Also its not like its personally information, just your screen name associated with your own activity, as your posts and comments are. But the passive act of voting is now very public which is a bit icky to me.

How do you all feel about this?

I'm sorry I haven't been super active on Lemmy and missed much of the conversation around this. I'll go find any relevant discussions too.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are a shit ton of serial downvoters, and as a mod, this helps you find them. Not as much on the larger instances, but the small ones. If you just post something and there are 30 users, and there are 8 downvotes, it's pretty obvious what they're doing.

[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been banned from a few communities cause o reflexively downvote anything that's AI generated.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's valid. But you're not going to go to a community that accepts AI then, so being banned is probably not a big deal. You don't want that in your feed either.

Also, people have been wrong about AI, sometimes it's a photoshopped photo. I've had a real photo serial downvoted because people thought it was AI and it wasn't.

[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a mix of "fair enough" , and "are you really monitoring votes close enough to even find me?". If I went out of my way to downvote everything then I would say the ban is 100% justified. At this point I can see the point of view, but also is it worth the effort, when I will probably block the community anyways?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

You're not a troll, that's why I think you don't understand. I post something that's not controversial and a "who cares?" kind of post. Then, like 10 minutes later, it gets downvoted 12 upvotes in a block. This is a place with like 30 subscribers. I quickly check who's downvoting so much so quickly, with the obvious intent to hide the post. The users who have no other comments, I'll ban them. That community is not for them. If the person seems real, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. I don't care about downvotes in general, just the trolling kind.

[–] Lacanoodle@literature.cafe 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I know, was a big thing on lemmy.dbzer0.com but. I'd rather get rid of downvotes than have them be so public

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I personally prefer them. They're not perfect, but it's better than having a facebook kind of experience.

[–] Lacanoodle@literature.cafe 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Understandable

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't personally understand the purpose of downvotes. They seem to mostly gather on posts that should be removed by a moderator or on jokes that were misunderstood. Seems pointless.

[–] Lacanoodle@literature.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

Ive actually anyways liked the idea of having net votes