2y ago

Kbin users can see who upvoted their OP and comments. Even if it is an upvote from a Lemmy user. Is it possible to have Voyager show that information as well?

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- I get what you mean, but it’s one thing to theoretically being able to look it up, and another thing entirely to "promote" it in every app, put development time into it, make it easily visible and encourage people to do so
Please don’t
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  Haha true ^^
- But it's already possible. If you review this OP on a Kbin instance, you'll see who upvoted the comment with most upvotes.
  Not integrating it means you give the impression to users it's not public information. But it is public.
  
  Not integrating it means you give the impression to users it's not public information. But it is public.
  That’s actually a fair point
  
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IMO the principle of voting is that it's anonymous. I don't think that I should be exposed to whoever up voted or downvoted my posts.
This would create unnecessary tension.
what if you downvote someones posts and then they start bullying you? yes you can block them but this would be encouraging that to happen.
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This got downvoted, but afaik it’s part of Lemmy and all your up and down votes are public.
Everyone should at least be made clearly aware of that, and one way would be to show it in the app.
I agree that I don’t want it, but as long as it’s post of Lemmy, it’s there regardless.
Maybe it can be displayed only on your own use profile to yourself with an explanation that this is public information that can be seen by others if they do X / use kbin.
- I would be a proponent of only upvotes that are public, just like Kbin does.
  I might in fact switch to Kbin just for that, but Voyager doesn't work with Kbin.
  Only upvotes / favorites is what Mastodon uses as well. It's the downvotes of those who don't react that can make a platform toxic. Not because the downvoters intend to, but because the author of the downvoted comment doesn't know why it's downvoted.

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