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PSA: every interaction you make with various posts on kbin is viewable to everyone. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zeste@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a
Is a good feature but it's interesting to see when someone decides to reduce all of your content for no reason.

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[–] Kichae@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The easy solution to half of that is to just eliminate down votes. I don't think they're anywhere near as useful as people seem to want to believe.

[–] ShadowRunner@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I disagree with you.

I've seen downvoting used very often to very quickly make trolls, spam, and highly offensive attacks disappear at the bottom.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I've not seen that on the Fediverse yet, but I have definitely seen comments that were merely unpopular opinions being heavily downvoted.

I'm thinking this might be a nice user-configurable option. If you don't think downvotes are valuable, disable them for yourself and you'll see the site as if downvotes didn't exist. Maybe another option could eliminate voting entirely, which would solve the privacy concerns too.