Fediverse

I support opening up vote logs to moderators in their own communities. Voting records add useful context to the nature of the exchanges happening, eg. if two people are having a back and forth, but neither is downvoting the other, it contextualizes the disagreement as less hostile.

I don't think it's a good idea to give every new user the burden of using that information responsibly. A minority would use it to retaliate, stalk, and harass, and there would be too many of them to reasonably hold them accountable.

seems trivial to check for a login/subscribed etc. then increment up//down votes. why link each vote to an account in public? maybe for mods an account(s) to be banned for botting votes?

There's an easy solution. Dump and create new accounts every week or month or whatever fits your needs. Backup and move your data if you want (lemmy's data import doesn't work well with big data though).

Just like changing your password routinely increases your security, new online identity gives you privacy.

I vote for public votes. Your comments, history and activity is already public, what can you gain from "hidden" votes as much as privacy?

Fuck yea lets go, then the petty people involved in discussions can see I'm not even bothering to down vote their idiocy.