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As for now, upvotes, downvotes and boosts are public on kbin (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by aroom@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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On every thread or post, if you click on more and activity, you'll get the info.

I personally find this to be a good things, I've seen people using downvote way too easily. I like the idea that we need to be somehow accountable for those mechanism.

edit: It could be somehow improved to have an option to let this info only available between concerned users.

edit edit: I think that up/downvote info shouldn't be public, but kept private between the users involved. we need to address this privacy issue.

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[–] aroom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (20 children)

If I see someone downvoting all my thread or post, I'll block them. Anonymity is not always bringing the best out of people.

[–] Cavalarrr@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (19 children)

People are allowed to disagree with things, although I understand if someone is just spamming the entirety of a thread with downvotes for no appreciable reason.
I'm in agreement with @eatmoregreenfood, that displaying your votes should be opt in, if available on the front end at all.
On a social basis, I don't think it matters; Whilst it would be preferable that someone explains why they disagree with something (assuming it is actually a disagreement, and not just malicious), I don't think anyone should be fearful of downvoting because the OP might call them out on it and expect them to explain, or forever see nothing from that user again. Disagreement isn't inherently negative.

[–] aroom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I'm sorry but we talked about silly things being posted in an other thread, we exchanged our point of view and at the end, you literally downvoted all of my silly intervention in the thread. so you do you but that is exactly this kind of behaviour I'm not looking forward here.

you could also argue that it would be a shame that anyone feels fearful to post because of people downvoting whatever it not pleasing them.

for me downvoting is a strong statement, not to be taken lightly. it can be part of building an very unwelcoming environment and also shaping the discours of users in only one direction.

please let's try to take what's the best of the fediverse here as well, be kind with each other if not excellent.

[–] deaconblue@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And your post is currently up to 17 downvotes. Seems like people pretty much proved the point you were making. I think that is kinda sad, but not entirely unpredictable. I'm still new here. I used reddit, sometimes I really liked it. But it wasn't perfect. I see this as a chance to improve. If we want to. I agree with what you said, I don't very often downvote. We will see what happens.

[–] aroom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

yes it's pretty ironic.

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