[Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...

I really wanted to post this on !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net but I'm not trans myself and I didn't want to take up their space.

Basically, the devs of Lemmy are looking to make upvotes public to everyone. Right now, I believe voter identities are known to server admins and mods.

I don't have a strong opinion on this myself, either for or against, as I write this comment, but I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing, frankly as a cishet dude.

But also... I've kinda lost trust in Nutomic making decisions about the software that won't make things worse for trans people since his comments on the Olympics were made public. Dessalines has (so far) at least tolerated Nutomic's transphobia despite whatever prior rhetoric. Frankly, I am suspicious that trans people don't matter to the Lemmy dev team...to be charitable...so I'd really like to hear your thoughts.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    The potential for drama is chefs-kiss

    Now when people get into a spat they will be able to compile a list of everyone who sides with their enemy or agrees with them sicko-mega

    Personally, admin can already see votes if we need to purge reactionaries which is plenty of transparency as far as I'm concerned. Although imagining a big struggle session on here with public upvotes is very funny, I'll admit

    • OrionsMask [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      Now when people get into a spat they will be able to compile a list of everyone who sides with their enemy or agrees with them

      internet-delenda-est

      Awesome, dude. That sounds like totally normal and non-toxic behaviour. Terminally online people looking for new ways to be terminally online.

    • blame [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      the reality is people will just vote less and that's fine.

      • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        RIP "food for thought" upvotes

        if my upvote is perceived as a public co-sign, it's gonna be a lot less common

        • blame [they/them]
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          3 months ago

          Personally I don't see an issue with that. Back in the old days most posts didn't have likes.

          • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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            3 months ago

            Yup and that's why I don't upvote/down vote anything...I never developed the habit on old forums. Honestly wish we could go back to the old internet before likes. Too many people addicted to getting dopamine hits of digital approval.