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.
Myself, and a handful of users by the looks of it, disagreed with the content of some of your posts, or thought it wasn’t relevant / contributing to the discussion. I certainly didn’t downvote the entirety of your contribution to that thread, and I don’t intend for you to think it’s a personal attack.
If you’d like to have a discourse on why I downvoted 4 of your comments, I, like many others aren’t looking for the ‘redditification’ of another site, regardless of how similar the premise might be, and that’s what I felt those comments were promoting, particularly ‘gesundheit’. I understand wanting things to be ‘just as good as they were’, etc., but this is new, things can be better, and I personally don’t want to see the site become reddit 2.0 just because there’s been a big influx of users after the blackout started. You’re entitled to want kbin.social to become something else, of course, and that’s arguably what the voting system is there for.
you shouldn’t assume that much about my intention tho. and I rather talk to you and argue that being told to “shut if up”, even tho you didn’t say it, it’s how a downvote feels.
I certainly don’t want kbin to be a reddit 2.0. but id like people to feel free to express themself in all matter, not only being serious. We don’t have to agree about that, it’s ok. But one thing that I really wish would stay on reddit is this downvote culture.
I understand what you’re saying, but at the time, would you have rather I replied to each of the comments with ‘I disagree’, ‘I don’t like this’, etc? That’s just opening things up for unnecessary arguments that end up taking over a whole thread, which is sort of what’s happening now.
Are downvotes not a way in which people freely express themselves?
of course. but it’s not mandatory to use them lightly.
for me it’s a really powerful statement.
For me it’s rather trivial. It just means “I like that” or “I don’t like that.” It’s an easy way if someone says something dumb or wrong for everyone to see that what they said was really unpopular. I think blocking is a far less trivial and shouldn’t be bandied about so easily. Commenting in response can be adding to the discussion, or it can just be a super downvote where you explain exactly how wrong they are. You’re entitled to your opinion and I won’t block you for having a different one than mine, but I will downvote when I disagree.
Unfortunately, that’s not really the common thinking. It was the most commonly ignored piece of reddiquette.