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I'm kind of against this unless people's responses are kept private for real (i.e. not stored on the server). Otherwise it's just more kompromat piling up.
How do you store who has voted and what the results of the poll are without storing results on a server? Ultimately it's just the same sort of data as who upvoted and downvoted what, right?
It's better than nothing if you record that account X voted in poll Y without recording how they voted. Just keep count of the # of votes for each option. After the poll closes, delete the list of voters for that poll. It might be possible to do something fancier to get more privacy.
One way encryption, same way passwords are stored.
Would that work to obfuscate up/downvotes in general?
Potentially, but any amount of obfuscation opens up the system to abuse.
If you trust the server hosting the community to handle all encryption, it's trivial for the admin to disable.
If you trust the server sending the vote, then it's trivial for a server admin to game the system and send hundreds of votes.
If you're the Consort, that's an important part of your endgame scoring! (Stationfall board game ๐)