Why YSK: your upvotes (favorites) and downvotes( reduces) are public information.
If you are browsing through https://kbin.social/ or whatever just click on “more” then activity.
There you’ll see info like boosts, reduces (downvotes), and favorites (upvotes?)
Works with all instances for lemmy or kbin material
I think it is fine, since likes on twitter have been public. People just need to change their habits on upvoting and downvoting that they got used to when they were on reddit. So need to adjust to how people would go and downvote whatever comment they disliked and move on. Now that stuff is public, so maybe it can help against brigading?
I’m more concerned about the more toxic people having access to the names and profiles of people who downvote them. Reddit had a lot of crazies, and it seems like a good tool for targeted harassment. Not to mention, what’s stopping them from having alt accounts on different instances and continuing even after they’ve been blocked or even banned on one account?
That is valid. It’s part of why I wanted to make people know about how upvoting and downvoting works so they can be more mindful about how they use it.
Report harassment to admins. This isn’t Reddit. On commercial social media, harassment is just “high engagement”, and so there’s incentives to not immediately remove harasser. That’s not true here.
Trust admins to take out the trash. If they don’t, find a new instance with an admin who will and don’t look back.
Harassment can go further than just on this site, admins can’t do anything outside the media they control.
Public votes are a bad thing, some people are crazy or just assholes.
This will serve as a dis-incentive to participation and engagement.