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

well taking up the whole thread is not an issue or is it? I quite enjoy talking with you to be honnest.

but your right, I understand that you don't want to reply to all my silly post. but I'm my book, you could have just ignored them and do nothing.

that's what I do when I see something that I don't agree with or don't like. either reply or ignore. I'll downvote only at the last recourse.

but I understand that we don't share the same value as what downvoting mean, and I'm ok with that. I just wish that this place will be build on the fediverse values from now on.

[–] Cavalarrr@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

well taking up the whole thread is not an issue or is it? I quite enjoy talking with you to be honnest.

If the thread is relevant to the topic at hand, then no, and I think this is relevant.

you could have just ignored them and do nothing.

I could have, but I chose to downvote a handful of comments that I didn't think were adding anything to the discussion, and I felt could have been seen on any top 100 reddit thread.

but I understand that we don't share the same value as what downvoting mean, and I'm ok with that.

I'm ok with that as well, and I appreciate that we can have a civil discussion about it. Like I've already said, it wasn't a personal attack or me saying "shut up". If I wanted to do that, I'd have commented that, and likely been deservedly downvoted into oblivion, because that's just not productive.

Edit; My first reply sounds a bit authoritarian, I think, and that's not what I want to convey- I'm not saying there can't be discussions that slowly veer off the topic of the post, but at the same time, if you're clicking into post comments, you don't want the first thing you see to be a 50 comment chain that winds up in a heated name calling argument, or two people just talking about PS1 emulators on your @knitting post, especially when there's no way to collapse comments currently (officially).

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

This is the point that needs to be conveyed. Not every comment requires a full engagement of conversation. A quick up/down vote to show agreement is all that's needed and we shouldn't require unnecessary fluff.

Additionally, having a log of people's liked comments sounds like an incredible source of abuse for people scraping user data...

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

up vote and down vote is not mandatory.

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