Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.
remon@ani.social 5 weeks agoYes, I understand your situation. It’s a price I’m willing to pay for private votes.
Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.
remon@ani.social 5 weeks agoYes, I understand your situation. It’s a price I’m willing to pay for private votes.
Skavau@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
I think it would be long term corrosive to the honesty of the fediverse, and fall into the same trapping as reddit.
remon@ani.social 5 weeks ago
I think the same thing about public votes.
Skavau@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
I truly don't see how. If you just mean mod abuse, mods will always abuse their power on any site - and the structure of the fediverse makes any mod anywhere more accountable than they are on reddit for bad faith moderating.
remon@ani.social 5 weeks ago
It’s not just about that. It’s also an important metric to gauge how the bigger “hivemind” is feeling about something, without having to fear that people will self-censor. Especially on lemmy with it’s extremely narrow filter bubbles. Voting is effectively obsolete if every niche community can pretend to be “popular” because they can just ban everyone that downvotes their stuff.