I have been working on Lemvotes, a tool to check who voted on a Lemmy post. In this blog post, I will describe how it works and the ethics of such a tool.
only admins can access this information, which makes it harder for users to report such behaviour to them.
This sounds like a user wants to become an admin
Since everything is public anyway, for me it begs the question: why hide it in the first place?
Some day, someone will write a tool/bot where you can enter a user/ sub and get all votes.
Currently only the technical people can see it, in the future, people with money will see it because they pay for such a service. Or someone will open an instance where you can see it.
I understand that there is a big dilemmy and I am glad that I am not in a position to decide upon a solution.
Btw, can only instance admins see their votes or all voting behaviors?
This sounds like a user wants to become an admin
Since everything is public anyway, for me it begs the question: why hide it in the first place?
Some day, someone will write a tool/bot where you can enter a user/ sub and get all votes.
Currently only the technical people can see it, in the future, people with money will see it because they pay for such a service. Or someone will open an instance where you can see it.
I understand that there is a big dilemmy and I am glad that I am not in a position to decide upon a solution.
Btw, can only instance admins see their votes or all voting behaviors?
I chuckled.
All votes on a specific post/comment