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As for now, upvotes, downvotes and boosts are public on kbin (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by aroom@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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On every thread or post, if you click on more and activity, you'll get the info.

I personally find this to be a good things, I've seen people using downvote way too easily. I like the idea that we need to be somehow accountable for those mechanism.

edit: It could be somehow improved to have an option to let this info only available between concerned users.

edit edit: I think that up/downvote info shouldn't be public, but kept private between the users involved. we need to address this privacy issue.

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[–] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some people don't understand the implications of making the votes public.

Any tool like "Kbin enhancement suite" will quickly scan for who downvoted you and will allow you to track the person who disrespected you by downvoting you. It won't be "micro-harassement", it will be wide scale, automated harassment, systematic retaliation. An active hate list, basically. Imagine the equivalent of a "the_donald" centralizing a database of the people to downvote or harass based on their public vote.

I think the best course of action is to no vote at all as long as the votes are not secret.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Public voting is inherent in how the fediverse is structured, it's impossible for it to both allow upvotes/downvotes and also keep those votes secret. A particular instance could hide them from the interface but any other instance that was federated with it would be able to see them anyway so if you're worried about stalkers then that's not going to change anything.

About the only way I could think of do "solve" this would be to use a pretty sophisticated cryptography technique called zero-knowledge proofs, and given how many people are already having problems with the complexities of federation that's probably not a good path to follow right now.