Comment on New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions.
9point6@lemmy.world 2 months agoWell that’s not good news. This feels like a bit of a problem because a lot of people probably wouldn’t vote on stuff they otherwise would out of fear of attracting the attention of some nutjob with too much time on their hands.
It kinda flies in the face of the “downvote (and maybe report) then move on” attitude that most of us will have taken on from Reddit.
I wonder if the devs have plans to correct this as I don’t see how this won’t limit engagement from good users aware of this and amplify toxic ones (due to people fearing retaliation).
dandroid@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I think the devs like this design. They are currently contemplating making votes public for everyone. There is a discussion on their GitHub about it. They opened the discussion and asked if the users want to make all votes visible on the UI. If it happens, I will probably stop voting altogether.