Why YSK: your upvotes (favorites) and downvotes( reduces) are public information.

If you are browsing through https://kbin.social/ or whatever just click on “more” then activity.

There you’ll see info like boosts, reduces (downvotes), and favorites (upvotes?)

Works with all instances for lemmy or kbin material

  • spriteblood@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m more concerned about the more toxic people having access to the names and profiles of people who downvote them. Reddit had a lot of crazies, and it seems like a good tool for targeted harassment. Not to mention, what’s stopping them from having alt accounts on different instances and continuing even after they’ve been blocked or even banned on one account?

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Report harassment to admins. This isn’t Reddit. On commercial social media, harassment is just “high engagement”, and so there’s incentives to not immediately remove harasser. That’s not true here.

      Trust admins to take out the trash. If they don’t, find a new instance with an admin who will and don’t look back.

    • GalacticLasers@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      That is valid. It’s part of why I wanted to make people know about how upvoting and downvoting works so they can be more mindful about how they use it.