Lemmy instance admin snooping at votes (monero.town)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by pop@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So I was going through /all and this admin is snooping at vote counts for posts in his instance and then posting it publicly.

Just a reminder that these kind of petty people exist. Pick a trustworthy instance or better yet, host your own.

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[-] Annoyed_Crabby 8 points 9 months ago

I think the main complain anyone would have with this is, only we admin can look at the vote, and no one else can. This isn't a problem in Kbin or any other platform that allow one to do so.

I only check the vote to see if there's any brigading, other than that, i have no issue with other admins snooping or whatever. Ohh to be clear, all of us admin can see the vote everywhere, getting a new instance yourself will not solve anything.

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

A new PR allowing mods to see the votes was merged a few weeks ago.

[-] Maestro@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why not allow anyone to see the votes? Anyone already can by using kbin or spinning up their own instance.

[-] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 9 months ago

I think there is an assumption that is rooted in how reddit worked, that votes are anonymous. People operating under that assumption might not like having that blanket ripped off. It would be different if it was up front from the start.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, but for that you have to open a ticket suggesting that.

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