Comment on Private voting has been added to PieFed
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoWouldn’t banning the voting half of the pseudonymous account not fix the immediate issue, or is it necessary to ban the associated commenting account without assistance from their instance admin?
shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 4 weeks ago
Well, doesn’t that fly in the face of federated autonomy and privacy?
On one end, if it’s my instance and I want to ban a user, I want the whole fucking user banned – not just remove their ability to vote anonymously. If one of my communities or users is being attacked, it’s my responsibility to react. If I can’t remove the whole problem with a ban, then I have to remove the whole problem with a de-federation. (A thing I fundamentally don’t want to do.)
On the other, if some other admin says, “one of your users is being problematic, please tell me who they are,” I’m going to tell that other admin to fuck right off because I just implemented a feature that made their votes anonymous. I’m not about to out my users to some rando because they’re raining downvotes on MeinHitler69@nazi.hut.
It’s a philosophical difference of opinion.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
But if the only bad behavior is voting and you can that agent then you’ve solved the core issue. The utility is to remove the bad behavior, no?
shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 4 weeks ago
No, the utility is to remove bad users.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
To prevent them from engaging in bad behavior.