Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…

What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

  • @[email protected]English
    25•1 year ago

    Holy shit. HOLY SHIT.

    I just realized what this actually MEANS.

    It means that when you like or dislike something so much that you unvote and then vote a second time, people can tell. This will change karma forever.

    • @17000HerbsAndSpicesEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      “I wish I could upvote this twice” is officially a reality. We should have moved here ages ago!

    • MuddybulldogOPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      That is a use case I had not considered. Excellent thinking.

    • stevedidWHATEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I’m gonna write a script that randomly injects upvotes and downvotes and then also posts responses after a random amount of time to prevent time correlations. People freak out most often when they don’t understand something, I continue to explore everyone to think things through logically and try not to assume new subjects are anything other than new and likely to cause some confusion/incorrect assumptions