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I get your point but if you want to just lurk and read don’t vote either

Currently what we have is mostly private, requiring either technical skill or admin access to circumvent. This is a pretty high bar which 99% of people would not be able to reach.

I’m down to work on an analyzer tool that would make it easier for everyone to see the votes

What a horrible fucking idea.

Do you have a better idea to make it easier to flag bots and government propaganda?

Wrong comparison. in state votes it’s done to prevent bribing here you can share your activity and create as many accounts as you want.

I think it’s a bad idea. It’s just going to start harassment and witch hunts

LLMs are smarter than the average foe already and governments spend millions on online propaganda. We NEED a witch hunt and lots of fire

Vote in good faith and if someone attacks you they will be on the wrong side

Same idiots playing games with each others in the open is better than bots and manipulation going on behind the scenes.

Yes this should have been done already. Reddit it’s structured the way it is to better serve the manipulative intentions of the company behind it. Another useful thing would be to have votes on each user profile to flag bots easily. Bots are a threat to this platform, extreme transparency is one way to counter them the other is to add restrictions.

I don’t want some nutjob with too much time stalking me because I upvoted something about climate change or downvoted some bigoted shit.

They can read your comment history why would you care about them being able to see what you upvoted?

Voting on Reddit-like platforms is soft moderation by a community, and if you disincentive that,

How does that disincentive it? It actually makes it better