zesteJun 30, 2023

PSA: every interaction you make with various posts on kbin is viewable to everyone.

If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a... #kbin #kbinmeta #kbinMeta

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/116811

PSA: every interaction you make with various posts on kbin is viewable to everyone. - /kbin meta - kbin.social

If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a...

Show threadernestJun 30, 2023
Rel: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/455
Voting history should NOT be public. It is a major privacy breach with potentially significant consequences.

At the moment, votes in kbin are public. You can see who has upvoted or downvoted any given item.   This is a problem for numerous reasons: 1. It will cause unnecessary arguments and drama. 2. It will promote downvoting wars. (i.e. "That person downvoted my comment, so I'm going to do...

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Show threadMelpomeneJun 30, 2023

Good discussion, there. I like the idea of allowing it to be set per instance; while it doesn't hide the votes from admins, changing the in-instance presentation of the data does allow an instance to customize the "feel" of the instance... much like Beehaw chooses not to use downvotes at all.

I'm on the fence re displaying them. I use the downvotes activity to search for bots / astroturfers and it DOES allow identification of bigots who downvote for that reason, but it also does provide a means of harassing someone for a downvote.

Really, a cultural shift from "Downvote = disagree" to "Downvote =Anti-factual, low effort, or bot" is needed.

Maybe making upvotes counter downvotes is a decent start? Right now, kbin is weighted toward downvotes; some users with thousands of upvotes and hundreds of downvotes are sitting in the negatives.

Show threadI_Miss_DanielJun 30, 2023
Kbin uses boosts as upvotes for their karma calculation, which is why you see the QI style scoring. Strange system.
Show threadMelpomeneJun 30, 2023
Yeah, that I get... it's just not intuitive for users. If downvote = -1 rep, then most people are going to assume that upvote = +1 rep, with boost being something like a "look at this post" option. But maybe that's just me?
Show threadI_Miss_DanielJun 30, 2023
I agree with you. It doesn't make sense to me. If it was me it would be =If(or(boost=1,upvote=1), karma=karma+1,karma=karma)
Show threadernest
Yeah, this is a consequence of recent changes. It has already been fixed on the test instances. The changes will soon be implemented on kbin.social
Jun 30, 2023 at 1:25pmWeb
Show threadMelpomeneJun 30, 2023
You're the programming man!