kux
@kux@lemm.ee
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
the illusion of privacy
i am from the post usenet and pre facebook internet generation (i hope that is vague enough) so using my real name on the internet or signing up for accounts with my real name email acount is strictly verboten by indoctrination, so my opinion may be out of date or invalid somehow, but i can not see how your lemmy account’s up or down voting history violates privacy in any meaningful way
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
that’s kind of the point, other instances are aggregating and rating your votes given and received, why shouldn’t lemmy show this to you?
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
it seems from a very brief search that likes and dislikes (see link below, i assume they translate to up and down votes) are the extent of what is available so a more nuanced slashdot or steam review type rating is unlikely to be viable.
in any case the ability to upvote and downvote feels like a core differentiating feature to this kind of forum and inbetween measures are unsatisfactory. upvote and downvote anything you like, and everyone can see you doing so. at least it may be possible in a future version to allow or disallow voting behaviours on a community rather than instance basis?
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
it’s a bit slippery slopey but yes i suppose so. if your downvoting sprees amount to being abusive as the admins or mods define it then on their terms your account should be banned, ip banned, whatever. i don’t think there’s any voting based behaviour that gets you in irl trouble, obviously posts inciting violence, sending credible threats or other behaviour that gets you noticed by your regional authorities is another kettle of fish, but none of that seems relevant to up/downvotes being visible
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
the author almost certainly has more experience in managing online communities than me (i have none) but it seems counterintuitive to see a dumb take, downvote *and *bother to leave an argumentative reply rather than just downvote and scroll past. downvotes in this case would defuse potential arguments rather than start them, but i’ll defer to the author and assume that’s not what happens
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
dual-voting (“I downvoted because I don’t like it but I upvoted it because you are absolutely right about it")
This is the most interesting take i have seen on the matter. it’s not a score out of five, why shouldn’t you up and down vote the same post?
you make an objectionable but very interesting point?
you are essentially right but you are belligerent and can’t spell?
upvote and downvote.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
You mentioned accountability
not really. but yes i believe your online profile as vague as that term is can and should remain distinct from your irl personal info
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
piefed is already exremely reddity maintaining behind-the-scenes ‘karma’ and ‘attitude’ for users whether they signed up for it or not. why shouldn’t this info be public instead of in the hands of admins only?
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
the votes linked to your lemmy account are visible
vs
your real name and address are exposed
how the fuck are these things similar
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
In MakeMKV preferences, Integration tab, VLC should be listed there
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 4 months ago:
agree with this and would add that the privatisation of social housing needs to be reversed by abolishing the right to buy before real investment into it can be started
- Comment on Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers' 8 months ago:
obviously the word was meant to be acting, why act retardant about it
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
it had a few hardcore fans, a quick search for RT9450 shows people still trying to get that to work up to about 2020
honestly i wouldn’t mind having another scroll wheel/bar on the keyboard somewhere, in the middle above the function keys might be cool
also fyi that link can be tidied to www.ebay.com/itm/363221421164
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is now available on Steam 11 months ago:
had this on the wishlist, but i won’t support all this day one dlc and season pass bullshit
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
who’s screaming? kux means nothing, it’s just a short pronouncable username. i admit i have used it for the abhorrent act of making a brand-new account, show me to the gulag
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
your emojis are shit and make you look like very stupid children