As for now, upvotes, downvotes and boosts are public on kbin
As for now, upvotes, downvotes and boosts are public on kbin
On every thread or post, if you click on more and activity, you'll get the info.
I personally find this to be a good things, I've seen people using downvote way too easily. I like the idea that we need to be somehow accountable for those mechanism.
edit: It could be somehow improved to have an option to let this info only available between concerned users.
edit edit: I think that up/downvote info shouldn't be public, but kept private between the users involved. we need to address this privacy issue.
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Hard disagree on the idea that upvote/downvote history being displayed constantly is a good thing - it seems like it's just inviting harassment. Should be opt-out at a minimum, and preferably opt-in.
In a small community it's probably fine; but it will get super toxic with big communities or abusive mods.
This is where I see there being an issue as well.
There's also potential for harassment due to people seeing opposing political opinions. As an example - My wife was once the target of harassment by a number of users on Reddit for days for warning people about an anti-abortion protest that was displaying graphic imagery. Much easier for those kind of people to coordinate harassment of others if they can easily see records of upvoting pro-choice or downvoting anti-choice posts/comments.