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.
On the face of things, being open about voting is good. Vote manipulation can be handled by the masses instead of some dystopian head admins.
On the other hand sensitive idiots use the voting data to ban others from communities. Reddit started a rumour that voting habits were being used to ban users off the site for their political views, but on Lemmy it’s more obvious. Bans for “vote manipulation” for down voting a single post in a community have been reported multiple times on YePowerTrippinBastards.
It’s a double edged sword.
If power-hungry mods want to discredit themselves by banning people for a single downvote and then getting bad publicity for it, and then risking the chance that a rival community is set up - draining their numbers, then so be it. I’m all for people showing us who they are in those situations.