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Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by o_o@programming.dev to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.

Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?

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[–] John937@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's sometimes hard to separate those feelings

Maybe a 3 button setup

Agreed and acceptable content
Disagree and acceptable content
Bad content

Default Rankings are based on minimum bad-content/maximum agreed count
And controversial ranking is based on minimum bad-content/maximum good-content count (agree+disagree)

This way even comments that people disagree with can be exposed so long as it's still good content

Brigadiers who blindly vote everything bad content to maliciously influence rankings can be identified and removed for manipulation, while people who vehemently disgree with an idea can still have that outlet without influencing the community/magazine haphazardly

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I never understood to pearl clutching about downvotes. It just reeks of "everyone who drives faster than me is a lunatic, everyone who drives slower than me is a granny" mentality.