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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I think there's something to be said for it being public. If someone's downvoting all of your content for no reason without engaging with it, that's obviously not someone worth your time and it may be a decent idea to just block them. I could also imagine some communities making it explicitly against the rules to downvote constructive comments for no reason, for instance.

At any rate, my understanding is that the actions must be at least publicly accessible in order for federation to work, so the only thing that Kbin could do is simply not openly display that data. Perhaps making it less accessible would reduce the temptation to look, but it'll always be available to anyone who truly wants to see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The data is accessible by nature, and we will probably soon have scripts and extension which will trigger a war of downvotes and counter-downvotes and bot attrition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

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