2y ago

As for now, upvotes, downvotes and boosts are public on kbin

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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I need to remember this. I don't want to upvote NSFW content and have all my kinks publically attached to this username.

Oof. It feels like every new social media platform insists on replicating the mistakes of their predecessors. You'd think by now there would be an established body of design patterns for social media. This looks like it might be relevant, even though it's quite old now.
edit: it's also interesting that only downvotes count for "reputation points", so anyone who raises their heads above the parapet in a contentious thread is at risk of instantly having a negative reputation [edit 2: QED]. I have no idea what effect that will have though...
- I read on here somewhere a day ago that boosts count positively to your reputation.
  
  the reputation point mechanism is broken right now. https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/80
  
  Hypothesis confirmed by experiment. Enjoy the boost.
  So basically a boost acts like a "super-upvote" (in addition to acting like a share). Man, this is going to be interesting.
  EDIT: See replies below for more details.
- I managed to garner a negative reputation score through one satirical link. I am not motivated to post more at this point honestly.
  
  go check my profile, it will make you feel better 🤣

Its fediverse. The only way to verify upvotes and downvotes and limit them to 1 per user is for there to be a record. The only way to avoid that situation is to not Federate upvotes/downvotes.
Being concerned about boosts is literally a misunderstanding of what a boost is. The purpose of a boost is to mimic retweet functionality. It's to share that same thing with all of your followers. It would serve no purpose if it weren't public.
One platform can hide them, but others would still be able to see them so someone with bad intentions could still just look it up somewhere else
- Ah, yeah. That makes me want the ability to undo a boost or have a confirmation for boosts even more.
  
  you can undo a boost by clicking on it a seconde time, no? and you'll have a confirmation with the term boost being underscored

I understand what you're saying, but in the broader scheme of the internet we should have the ability to dictate what of our data and actions get broadcast and therefore able to be mined by advertisers or other nefarious entities. This is actually a hugely important idea in fighting the corporatization of the internet. We need to stop letting mega corps build profiles on us based on our clicks.
- I totally agree, but I find it refreshing to make people accountable. Maybe there is a solution to keep it somehow private between users?
  
  I still don't really understand what your dissatisfied with. You said something about people downvoting too much? Say you see someone who is downvoting in a way you don't like. What is your recourse? Why do you want that information?

I think it's a good thing to show the person behind the downvote based on the principles of transparency and sharing information freely. If corporations will take advantage of that data, they are the problem and the solution should reflect that.
If a person wants to participate in the discussion by either commenting or voting, they shouldn't be doing it behind a veil of anonymity.
- Isn't anonymous voting the cornerstone of democracy?
  
  the cornerstone of democracy is education.

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