[Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
  • Amju Wolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This doesn’t solve it. I can still just make multiple accounts and vote multiple times.

    I mean yeah, but you could already do that now. The point is to not make it worse, and to not allow malicious instances to vote as if they were other people.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I mean yeah, but you could already do that now

      Yes, but because the votes are not private, I can be found out by correlating votes. Like if I made another account and just used it to always upvote everything my first account posts, that would be pretty obvious. If votes are private, there is no way to find out such conduct.