By that I mean that you should be able to drill into post and comment votes, and see the users.
Votes for me are really just a temperature gauge, for me to see if the content I’m posting is appreciated by a community. Other than that, they don’t actually seem to have too much impact on this platform, likely because of scale and algorithm (or lack there of).
That being said, I’ve noticed some mild, weird “turf war” style downvote brigading of community posts. Not botting per say, but deliberate and individual shitty behavior. It’s ultimately no more than a mild annoyance, but I think transparency into the social voting behavior of users would encourage accountability.
Rabble rabble anonymity though!
There’s no actual impact to a user’s anonymity. There’s just less of a free pass to act shitty and not get the boot from a community, under whatever moniker and internet personality type you choose.
Interesting take. So is it your stance that a community should ban or retain folks based on what they’ve up/down voted? Seems like (if that’s the case) you’d run into very little diversity of thought in most communities. Which is fine if that’s the goal I guess.
If that’s a community’s prerogative, then yes. I think they’d either build an echo chamber, or sink their own ship if they were so shrewd, but that’s also motivation to form healthier competing communities.
Myself, as a mod of a few, just want tools to remove users that aren’t contributing and truly just dishing out mass downvotes to those that are.
I see. Makes sense.