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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.

I remember being good at google-fu, and then thinking my google-fu was failing me.

No, it was the Google that failed me.

Same here; I change my mind about upvotes/downvotes all the time (especially since I have the terrible habit of voting while I’m still reading the comment), but the ones I’ve done that for are still there. Heck, the first couple I see when I look at my profile are ones I did that for. Read half the comment, upvoted out of the corner of my eye while I was still reading, read the second half, went “Hoo boy, nevermind,” and un-voted.

Related to that, upvotes/downvotes being public is a dealbreaker for me. I don’t feel safe upvoting or downvoting anything here unless it’s completely uncontroversial, because I don’t want to open myself up to harassment by people who disagree.

I’ll hang around for a bit to see if that changes, but I’m very unlikely to stick around if it doesn’t.