I mod a few communities and I can now see who has upvoted or downvoted any comment or post in the community.

You’d think any mod would like that data being available to find any issue user. But I feel like invasive with this.

I know admins have long been able to see this data.

Also its not like its personally information, just your screen name associated with your own activity, as your posts and comments are. But the passive act of voting is now very public which is a bit icky to me.

How do you all feel about this?

I’m sorry I haven’t been super active on Lemmy and missed much of the conversation around this. I’ll go find any relevant discussions too.

    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
      91·
      3 days ago

      I think it’s better for everyone to see this information so no one thinks it’s private.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Is there a way to make votes private in the fediverse? Seems tricky given the voting data needs to be visible to every federated server

      • ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        There is at the server level. The tools that show votes publicly can be defederated from the instance. dbzer0 did it recently with an instance that was felt to be invasive - not sure why it wasn’t done for all upvote tracking tools.