I know this isn’t about lemm.ee specifically but I figured this was a good place to ask.

I always found it weird - even on reddit - that users could upvote and downvote themselves. Why not just have posts start at 0 votes?

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    1 year ago

    You can upvote yourself on most platforms. You can like yourself on Facebook, you can give yourself a heart on Instagram. It’s just not considered very tasteful as it is off by default.

    My guess would be that it’s kind of pointless to implement checks if the liker is also the poster just to prevent them from liking themself.