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PSA: every interaction you make with various posts on kbin is viewable to everyone. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a
Is a good feature but it's interesting to see when someone decides to reduce all of your content for no reason.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a very simple way to ensure that your upvote/downvote records aren't public; simply never upvote or downvote anything. I think it'd be fairly straightforward to add a user option to hide everything related to upvoting and downvoting from a user, giving them a kbin experience completely divested from that sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s a great way to kill user engagement before it even starts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They can still comment if they want. Indeed, without vote buttons that now becomes the only way to say "u suk" or "this!"