Names blurred to protect the innocent / crazy. Not trying to call anyone out, just thought the response was hilarious and highly disproportionate. Like, they distinguished that comment (green border/background).
For reference, the comment I presume that was downvoted that apparently triggered that response was to the tune of “BoTH SiDEz!!!” with some hyper generalizing / stereotyping on the side.
I do think it’s unfortunate that votes aren’t public to non-instance-owners. That’d be a nice thing to change. I might see if I can find any existing tickets on the topic or whatever.
(Sorry, I know it’s weird to make two top-level comments on the same post, but this one’s sufficiently unrelated to my other one, I figured it made sense.)
What do you mean votes aren’t public? I see the up vote / down vote on this comment in fact.
Everyone can see the count of both upvotes and downvotes. But instance owners can also see the usernames of who upvoted and who downvoted a given post/comment. (Probably also the list of all posts/comments a given user has upvoted/downvoted, I think?) And not just users on the same instance. Users from other instances too.
I think I’ve heard that the usernames of users who upvoted/downvoted things are also public info on Kbin. (Not just to instance owners, but also to regular users.)
Up/Downvotes usernames are publicly visible via the API to everyone. Kbin shows users this, lemmy does not.
Ah. Ok. I might see if I can track down specifically which endpoint that is at some point.
Only upvotes
On stock Kbin, you could see the usernames of whoever downvoted you. But it also only synced downvotes from within its own instance, so you wouldn’t see downvotes on your posts if the were from outside instances. I think that may be a server-side setting that Ernest had enabled on Kbin.social, so I think Kbin can be configured for either option.
I believe that technically, the list of users who downvote is public on all instances, but it requires having some means of pulling that data out of the API, as it’s usually not displayed in the default web UI.
I’ve looked around a bit at the API and haven’t found it, but I didn’t look too exhaustively. I might look again when I get a second.
Mods can to from the back-end but the front-end hasn’t caught up yet with the feature: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4392
Good to know. Looks like that backend change is in Lemmy version 0.19.4 and newer (which is why it didn’t work with a
{"error":"not_an_admin"}when I ran a test on Lemmy.World which is still on 0.19.3 using a post in a community I’m a mod of). Thanks for pointing me to that PR.You are welcome!