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Meh. I don't really think this is a big issue. But my attitude to privacy is ... non-standard.
It is interesting. It might even help negate hivemind behaviour because your name is tied to your actions.
thats my thinking. im on the fence, but it does force accountability for people who downvote for no reason
It also constrains people from participating in the community if the things they support or object to would cause harassment or harm from people who know who they are, which is not always preventable, for example a shared household, using kbin from work (activity monitored), etc...
I could easily see an Amazon worker getting fired because they were logged upvoting pro-union threads. They wouldn't even need to be doing this from a company network - just accessing kbin once on their network for any reason would have their user name associated with them, and then Amazon can simply monitor their activity on kbin even when they are using it from home.
It's worth experimenting with.
Over on Reddit, the RES extension keeps track of who you upvote and downvote and will display a little indicator next to their username telling you the tally of your personal upvote/downvote total for him. I rarely ever remembered people by name, but it was notable to me when I'm reading through a thread and see someone flagged [+100] or whatever.
With the Fediverse, you could actually flag users with two values - your total upvote/downvotes for him, and his total upvote/downvotes for you. That'd be interesting to see.