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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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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My understanding is that all of this vote data is already exchanged on the public Internet, and that it has to be this way for federation to work. It's a client and interface design feature to show the data or not to show the data. So you should probably assume that icky people on the Internet are already looking at it.

[–] Lacanoodle@literature.cafe 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah that's fair enough. Better everyone sees it than just a few ig?