Maybe I’m oversensitive? We all know our votes here are public record, but to me it seems like weird, obsessive, and unhealthy behavior.
It definitely is a red flag for me to the point where I wonder if I shouldn’t just outright block people who go around making it known it’s something the participate in.
You should immediately block everyone who disagrees with you. Then all of your BS will be eternally enabled and you’ll never be wrong about anything.
Legitimately the reason I hesitated to block people I was reporting on reddit.
Lemmy’s public downvoting could be easily gamed.
I can’t imagine how any of these things could actually matter. Like… …ever.
Even a little bit.
I envy your lack of imagination.
Let’s say 0.5% of users care enough about unreported bots to downvote or report them. If all information is public, you can quickly hide your bot comment or posts from that 0.5% and dodge being detected by the community.
How do you hide from those 0.5%? Blocking someone stops you seeing them, it doesn’t stop them seeing you?
Oh, that’s how it works on reddit–you don’t see them, they don’t see you.
Blocking is one-way on lemmy?
Yes, to the complaint of many but that’s how it currently works.
There’s no good solution.
Now I can follow around people who blocked me and subtly accuse them of all sorts of awul things and they won’t see it.
Yip that’s the complaint about it. Lots of problems with no obvious solutions. I’m not sure how Piefed handles it.
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Ask rimu or 002
I didn’t know what that is and will continue with that. Thanks though!
Ok who’s 002? As you can see from my instance, you probably can guess I know who rimu is.
That extremely personality disordered person with one or several accounts on multiple instances that is mostly a repost bot, claiming none of it is scripted, which is an obvious untruth.
Are you saying I should embrace the thing I fear to take away its power?
Or just just block folks who vocally disagree?
Yes, definitely that.
This guy blocks
I just wish I knew why I keep hearing myself after I speak. So strange.
I totally agree.
You should take an active effort to read the intelligent comments of people who disagree with you. I don’t know how you hand downvotes and blocking and so I can’t tell if this is a comment that is directly at you to change your ways or if you already are doing this and you are only downvoting/blocking obvious garbage. Too many people, when they see a point of view they disagree with, assume immediately that the other person is stupid and that common is garbage. But that is false. It is, however, a very hard bias to overcome in yourself. Something I struggle with, too.