[Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    What if an instance sends 1000 fake hashes as votes?

    What’s the difference from users though?

    You’d give each user an anonymous vote ID that only the instance can link back to their username.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      What’s the difference from users though?

      Imagine you have 500 users that consisently upvote each other and 500 users that vote randomly on different posts. If you jumble up those 500+500 in 1000 random hashes, it becomes impossible to distinguish who is part of the voting ring and who isn’t.

      • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Hence why I gave a solution. It would simply become spam that should be handled by the instance where it originates from.