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As for now, upvotes, downvotes and boosts are public on kbin (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by aroom@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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On every thread or post, if you click on more and activity, you'll get the info.

I personally find this to be a good things, I've seen people using downvote way too easily. I like the idea that we need to be somehow accountable for those mechanism.

edit: It could be somehow improved to have an option to let this info only available between concerned users.

edit edit: I think that up/downvote info shouldn't be public, but kept private between the users involved. we need to address this privacy issue.

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[–] vaguerant@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are downvotes not a way in which people freely express themselves?

[–] aroom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

of course. but it's not mandatory to use them lightly.

for me it's a really powerful statement.

[–] jinno@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

for me it's a really powerful statement.

Unfortunately, that's not really the common thinking. It was the most commonly ignored piece of reddiquette.

[–] aroom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

so let's change that! 🤗

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me it's rather trivial. It just means "I like that" or "I don't like that." It's an easy way if someone says something dumb or wrong for everyone to see that what they said was really unpopular. I think blocking is a far less trivial and shouldn't be bandied about so easily. Commenting in response can be adding to the discussion, or it can just be a super downvote where you explain exactly how wrong they are. You're entitled to your opinion and I won't block you for having a different one than mine, but I will downvote when I disagree.

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

you do you, but I'm reluctant of building a community where the majority decide what's popular or unpopular with such behaviour. I'm more inclined to design and act for inclusivity.

this is exactly what I wish we don't bring from reddit.

[–] jinno@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only way to modify the design to fit that philosophy would be to make it very tedious to downvote something. "Are you sure" popups and multi-step. That way when people dislike it... they really dislike it.

[–] aroom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

you'll have to translate 15 strings of kbin.pub? 😉 https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/2428/kbin-Translations