If you click on the “more” button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I’m not sure if this a
Is a good feature but it’s interesting to see when someone decides to reduce all of your content for no reason.

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    I think that regular users don’t really care, why would anyone obsess about tracking down which account liked which post? the only people who get into that sort of thing, are people who likely manipulate with multiple accounts themselves. and they don’t wanna be traceable and that’s why they’re afraid of this feature.

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      why would anyone obsess about tracking down which account liked which post?

      Normal people wouldn’t. Unfortunately, there are a lot of assholes, stalkers, and people who are salty they got downvoted and want revenge.

      Ever seen people on Reddit say “Whoever downvoted this, go fuck yourselves?” I can guarantee that, if they knew who downvoted them, they wouldn’t keep their reaction contained to an edited comment.

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      Good discussion, there. I like the idea of allowing it to be set per instance; while it doesn’t hide the votes from admins, changing the in-instance presentation of the data does allow an instance to customize the “feel” of the instance… much like Beehaw chooses not to use downvotes at all.

      I’m on the fence re displaying them. I use the downvotes activity to search for bots / astroturfers and it DOES allow identification of bigots who downvote for that reason, but it also does provide a means of harassing someone for a downvote.

      Really, a cultural shift from “Downvote = disagree” to “Downvote =Anti-factual, low effort, or bot” is needed.

      Maybe making upvotes counter downvotes is a decent start? Right now, kbin is weighted toward downvotes; some users with thousands of upvotes and hundreds of downvotes are sitting in the negatives.

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        I’ve had some time to think about it and I think I actually like the current setup. “Boost” provides more visibility to a post, while “upvote” and “downvote” is synonymous with agree/disagree.

        In a way, I can disagree with someone AND boost it. Disagreeing with someone doesn’t have to be hostile. I think it would be healthy if a community could disagree with each other in a civil manner.

        I also like that if someone disagrees, that person cannot influence if the post gets less visibility.

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          Except downvoting does reduce content’s visibility, and people are downvoting content that they don’t really have anything to do with because it shows up in their All feed. Certain niche magazines and magazines for vulnerable communities are at risk of vote bullying in the current system.

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        Kbin uses boosts as upvotes for their karma calculation, which is why you see the QI style scoring. Strange system.

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          Yeah, that I get… it’s just not intuitive for users. If downvote = -1 rep, then most people are going to assume that upvote = +1 rep, with boost being something like a “look at this post” option. But maybe that’s just me?

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            I agree with you. It doesn’t make sense to me. If it was me it would be =If(or(boost=1,upvote=1), karma=karma+1,karma=karma)

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              Yeah, this is a consequence of recent changes. It has already been fixed on the test instances. The changes will soon be implemented on kbin.social

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    I think there’s something to be said for it being public. If someone’s downvoting all of your content for no reason without engaging with it, that’s obviously not someone worth your time and it may be a decent idea to just block them. I could also imagine some communities making it explicitly against the rules to downvote constructive comments for no reason, for instance.

    At any rate, my understanding is that the actions must be at least publicly accessible in order for federation to work, so the only thing that Kbin could do is simply not openly display that data. Perhaps making it less accessible would reduce the temptation to look, but it’ll always be available to anyone who truly wants to see.

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      Yes, on par I lean towards it being a good thing as publicly available information rather than shadowy mud-slinging. I had one post downvoted by someone who apparently has done nothing else before or since, which takes a bit of the sting out of it. There will probably be debates about it at some point, and probably the occasional tit-for-tat attacks around the place, but overall I think it does link a bit more identity to the person who does the up- or down-voting which creates more of a community feel instead of hiding behind total anonymity.