[Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    As far as I know right now, IP and such details are your instance only.

    Votes, however, are visible across any instance. I agree its a transparency issue. Right now I think a of of folks believe their votes to be anonymous (or only visible to their instance admins at most), but that’s not true at all.

    • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That’s really good to know, and not how I thought the system worked previously. I thought instances were responsible for all vote aggregation and simply reported totals to each other at regular intervals, plus submitting comments/edits from users which are more obviously public

      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Yup, all visible. The only exceptions are fully private instances (or mostly private, with limited federation) and local only communities.

        kbin/mbin also make all these votes public, so you could even just be on an mbin server and see all the votes. So right now its like… jumping over an 8" high hurdle. Or doing the limbo under a pole at 5’. You have to do something, just not much. I wouldn’t call it completely non-trivial to do, but it isn’t rocket surgery either.