I read on reddit that on Lemmy you can see users’ upvote/downvote history. I therefore expected to be able to see upvote/downvote breakdown by user for my own comments. But couldn’t find this. Does this feature exist or is that a myth?

  • Hazzard@lemm.eeEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    Hmmm, tbh, I don’t think that’s a feature I’d want. Every now and again you see “that guy” furious that he’s getting downvotes, doubling down and trying to start an argument or something. I don’t need that guy showing up in my DMs.

      • Hazzard@lemm.eeEnglish
        131·
        1 year ago

        Oooh, good point. As an admin/moderator feature, that’s a much better idea.

    • CoffeeAddict@kbin.social
      132·
      1 year ago

      It actually already is a feature. Kbin puts it upfront, and I think lemmy also has a way to access it.

      I think it remains to be seen whether or not it’s a good idea.

      I’ve seen some people say they like the idea because it make people think twice about downvoting - it cuts back on the instinctive “I don’t like this so I am gonna downvote.”

      But, as you said, do we really want people coming after you because you downvoted them? There are crazy ass people out there, and if you ever get doxxed it could be a problem.

      Maybe that last point is hyperbole, but crazy people are gonna do crazy things.

      • Anafroj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        “karma” (as reddit calls scoring) never was more true to its name. :)

        I haven’t looked at Lemmy’s implementation of upvotes/downvotes, but they should be ActivityPub activities, so it means they should appear by making a request to the user’s actor.

        EDIT: I’ve just checked random users outbox (that’s the ActivityPub name for the list of activities), included mine, they are actually just empty. So that probably means that Lemmy is only publishing the upvotes/downvotes when pushing activities to federated servers, which would make those activities way more private, although not completely : someone could setup their own instance to learn about them, and it’s best to be assume that at some point, someone will start such instance and publish an app revealing all votes for everybody (plus, as others mentioned, Kbin is already doing it).

        • CoffeeAddict@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          Right.

          My intuition says this has to do with kbin wanting to interface with mastodon, but I cant be sure.

          I do wonder how this will impact the Fediverse as it grows. I would not be surprised if the feature creates schisms in the future.

    • LastSprinkles@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah agree I am not sure that’s a feature I’d want either tbh if it wasn’t already there. But seems like it is in some form.

      • Hazzard@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, having it on your user page is much less dangerous, imo. Still a possibility of getting called out if you downvote someone you’re arguing with, but you’re already in the comments there.

        The only way I see a problem is if someone writes a bot or extension that reads the user profile into something “per comment”, and if that gets enough traction and use to build up a strong database. However, in that case, I’d imagine the Lemmy devs would build a feature to let instance admins hide that information from regular users.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    511·
    1 year ago

    Oh, I know who upvotes me. It’s the awesome people.

    And the people who downvote me are the people that suck.

    • LastSprinkles@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      Ahhh right so the information is there publicly available just not in the existing clients. Interesting.

    • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Is that info federated or just the count? Might still be trivial to get the info if it’s the former.

  • Limitless_screaming@kbin.social
    103·
    1 year ago

    Open any post on KBin. Click the url, and add /votes/down. those are the people who downvoted that post.

    If the post is from Lemmy you can view “favourites” and “reduces” instead, just add /favourites or /reduces to the end of the url.

    Enjoy :)

      • Limitless_screaming@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        You have to open the post from KBin, and it seems /reduces is wrong; it must be /votes/down.

        Examples:

        Upvotes: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/329561/Is-is-possible-to-see-who-upvoted-downvoted-a-specific-comment/favourites

        Downvotes: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/329561/Is-is-possible-to-see-who-upvoted-downvoted-a-specific-comment/votes/down

        Boosts: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/329561/Is-is-possible-to-see-who-upvoted-downvoted-a-specific-comment/votes/up