Maybe I’m oversensitive? We all know our votes here are public record, but to me it seems like weird, obsessive, and unhealthy behavior.
It definitely is a red flag for me to the point where I wonder if I shouldn’t just outright block people who go around making it known it’s something the participate in.
Yes, the internet is filled with weirdos - next question
I’ll look at some users who post a ridiculous take on something. I mostly look to see if they are just a shitty troll or if it was a one off and decide if I want to block them. I don’t look through there posts for context, just the raw vote numbers. If someone is majority negative on their posts, then they don’t need to show up in my feed.
There are a handful of other users on here who I see frequently that I don’t agree with on a lot of things, and the community agrees with me based on votes, but those users also make good comments that are beneficial to some conversations and sometimes I learn something new. I’ll put up with the bad for the good.
I’m with you there. I don’t block for disagreement, I block for assholery
It really comes down to whether or not I think someone is arguing in bad faith, but there’s a fine line between bad faith and complete idiocy. Like, if someone is a hardcore trump supporter, they could argue in good faith, but we are so far apart that there really is no discussion to be had. I can’t fathom any situation where anyone could support him without being a pedophile and/or a billionaire business owner. Then there are trolls that will just use strawman arguments to move the goalposts on any topic just to not be wrong, and that shit just isn’t worth ingesting, ever.
I think if you obsess over ‘figuring out’ the person, it can be weird.
I have definitely checked post history and upvotes on some users just to get context for their comments. It has saved me wasting time trying to have a discussion with someone who only seems to ever look for fights.
You should immediately block everyone who disagrees with you. Then all of your BS will be eternally enabled and you’ll never be wrong about anything.
Legitimately the reason I hesitated to block people I was reporting on reddit.
Lemmy’s public downvoting could be easily gamed.
I can’t imagine how any of these things could actually matter. Like… …ever.
Even a little bit.
I envy your lack of imagination.
Let’s say 0.5% of users care enough about unreported bots to downvote or report them. If all information is public, you can quickly hide your bot comment or posts from that 0.5% and dodge being detected by the community.
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Are you saying I should embrace the thing I fear to take away its power?
Or just just block folks who vocally disagree?
For some people, that’s all they have. Vote like everyone can see and give no shits about lurkers being vexed.
Same goes for commenting. Sometimes it can be funny when someone goes through your post history just to quote a comment you make 2+ years ago and still be wrong.
Creepy? Probably. Pathetic? Absolutely.
Where can I even see post votes?
I only do that with accounts that are sus, like posting propaganda, ads, etc. To check if it is a bot and to report it.
Yes, those people are creepy.
Have you seen the guy who calls everyone stalker sockpuppets, tags all the admins and starts harassing you with his own sockpuppets whenever he gets a downvote?
How do you even see who down votes?
This is up and down votes for your comment: (I gave you a downvote so you can see how it looks. Sorry)
https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/25430224
If you click the colored link icon that looks like a spiderweb, you get a direct link to your comment, copy the last numbered part in this case: 25430224 and add it to this lemvotes link: https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/
AFAIK some apps have the function built in.
NOOO MY IMAGINARY INTERNET POINTS IM BLOCKING YOU 5EVER!!!
Goddammit! 4ever I can handle but 5ever that is brutal. 😋
Yes. An explanation for this, would be great.
Explanation provided, just check context of the post you responded to. I’m not repeating it here to avoid double posting.
Who really cares? Everyone isn’t going to have your option, if you really like it up vote it, if it pisses you off or something down vote it. Hell down vote the hell out of this post, it’s fake internet points for fucks sake.
But yeah, it’s weird as shit to have nothing else to do in your day/life and get so pissed at an opposing opinion that you scour through someone’s history. Get a hobby or something.
Sometimes I’ll check post and comment history if something seems a little off. For example, does this account show patterns you might see in a troll or bot?
Looking at votes though? That never even occurred to me, and even know I don’t see what the point would be.
The only “creepy” thing about it is that viewing who upvoted/downvoted what isn’t a feature that’s just built into Lemmy (and Lemmy-UI). I can’t imagine why the authors of Lemmy would want to have a class system with some (instance admins) being able to see vote information and others (everyone else) being unable.
You say “we all know our votes here are public record”, but that’s not really true. Even Lemvotes doesn’t work for at least half of the posts I’ve tried it on. It’d be more accurate to say “we all know our votes here aren’t secret”.
I think there is an opt out(or disable option), at the instance level, for the specific mechanism that lemvotes uses.
I vaguely recall someone complaining that they were using something that was never intended to be used that way.
Never looked in to it so I can’t be sure.
Without context? Yeah.
I downvote for lazy spelling, and there’s no way to indicate that. I’ll accept if I downvote a positive idea and in doing so make it seem like I disagree with the positive message instead of just the broken medium, but I’d rather not.
