Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.
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If this mean we'd be able to see who has up- / downvoted a comment on our own and possibly on other people's posts then I'm all for it. This would be highly useful at filtering out the people here I want nothing to do with.
"Help me build my echo chamber."
Echo chamber within echo chamber I guess.
It's not the people whose opinions I disagree with who I usually block. It's people making snide comments like this while fishing for upvotes. I'll reserve my attention to the ones who have something to say rather than ones just wanting to make noise.
It also opens the door to more users obsessing/being confrontational with anyone who downvoted their comment(s). May send users off to downvote users comments for lurkers who rarely comment, which could shrink the population/activity over time.
Not sure where I stand on it, I guess if the info is there and will be used by others, it's good to be aware
Unavoidably so but then again, going sideways because of a downvote is just more data on who you might want to block.
Agreed, the more I've thought about it I keep coming back to it being safer with all users knowing the data is easily accessible by everyone else. That will prevent users from situations as well where maybe they upvote something NSFW/controversial thinking what does it matter if they didn't comment so no one would know it was them. Some time in the future someone may start aggregating the data to use to kink shame / call out people or such.
I mean this is a benefit, I'm just worried that this is going to create a echo chamber, Facebook has the same issue where people just hide post that they don't agree with which basically makes it so the only content they see is content they agree with and it's never positive to have only one side of an argument. That's a big reason of why the US politics system is failing(sorry it's just the biggest example I can think of) it's too segregated between the two major parties so nothing can ever get done
I fully agree with this in the terms of removing stuff that doesn't have to do with the conversation or topic, but I don't agree on filtering People based off opinion, which is what I'm worried this would cause
By using Lemmy we're already filtering out certain people and opinions. I personally think that the more control we have over what we see, the better. I don't think it's opposing views people want to filter out. It's the ones having those views and being dicks about it.
I can agree with that, I myself am guilty of blocking people who are hostile with their ideologies, I do believe that would be handy. But I know there is definitely people who are just going to block every person that has to do with their ideology, and giving them the ability to see the downvotes see who disagrees with their ideology I don't think it is healthy/should be promoted