Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?

otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Should the Lemmy devs create a way to make the votes anonymous?

I’m not sure if there is a good way to have the content federate anonymously. Even if there was, it would be a vector for spam.

Vote manipulation is a growing problem on Reddit, and it’s only getting worse with all the AI spam bots. They don’t have an incentive to stop it and it’s only going to get worse.

Admins need to know if the votes/likes coming in are legitimate, else they should block them. It’s too easy to abuse anonymous votes to affect how content and ideas are ranked.

I left a long comment in the other thread which I will link in a moment, but I think either

  1. We keep the current setup, but we put in more effort to make new users aware that vote records are visible to admins/mods
  2. We make it public for everyone and take steps to deal with the new issues that it could cause

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