Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
otter@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Potential positives:
- it would make it less surprising to users that don’t realize that any admin can review voting activity
- it would make it easier for non-admin users to study voting activity and find abuse
- it would make it consistent with other platforms that we federate with, which can already see votes
Potential downsides:
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People will report voting activity that they don’t like, even if it’s not malicious. Admins will need to set up rules on what is / isn’t ok, and take action against people that spam reports. It would also help to have automated tools to review voting activity since it’s hard to do that manually.
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It’s another