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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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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago

I agree that it's good to let users know that their votes are public, but I think it would be better to just tell them that (kind of like how Mastodon says "heads up, DMs are not encrypted") and not by also giving them easy access to that information. Simply because if it's easier for more people to do, then more people will be tempted to do it.

I definitely agree that downvotes should be reconsidered entirely. It's basically outsourcing moderation duties to the users, not to mention that people will always incorrectly use it as a "disagree" button.