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Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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Other posts have already posted it better than I could, but my tl;dr is: one of the good things about Lemmy compared to the "competition" is that votes are public -- or at least the fact that someone voted is.
I wouldn't mind restricting access to how a user voted, in particular if in the future something like multi-choice upvotes becomes a thing, or even something I'd love to see as is dual-voting ("I downvoted because I don't like it but I upvoted it because you are absolutely right about it", this is absolutely different than not voting at all if the who is voting is being tracked).
But on a fundamental level, in the least instance admins have to be able to know who votes for our version of the system to even work compared to the competition.
This is the most interesting take i have seen on the matter. it's not a score out of five, why shouldn't you up and down vote the same post?
you make an objectionable but very interesting point?
you are essentially right but you are belligerent and can't spell?
upvote and downvote.
Yeah I mean it's basically a consequence that an upvote or a downvote can be for any number of reasons not shared from up- to down- or viceversa, and a simple voting system is ill-equipped to represent or contextualize that. Various solutions are viable, but my perspective is that if up+down-voting is here to stay, that part could be extended so that the act of voting could be this one bit more representative.
it seems from a very brief search that likes and dislikes (see link below, i assume they translate to up and down votes) are the extent of what is available so a more nuanced slashdot or steam review type rating is unlikely to be viable.
in any case the ability to upvote and downvote feels like a core differentiating feature to this kind of forum and inbetween measures are unsatisfactory. upvote and downvote anything you like, and everyone can see you doing so, would be an improvement imo on the current implementation.
at least it may be possible in a future version to allow or disallow voting behaviours on a community rather than instance basis?
https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub/Primer/Like_activity
“Controversial” is what that would be called. Do we need a third vote instead of double-vote?