I have been working on Lemvotes, a tool to check who voted on a Lemmy post. In this blog post, I will describe how it works and the ethics of such a tool.
  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    92·
    7 个月前

    Having access to information about who voted on a post would allow people to locate brigading1 efforts and detect bots spamming down/upvotes on posts. Currently, only admins can access this information, which makes it harder for users to report such behaviour to them.

    Or provide the empire controlling most of the bots, extra ammunition to have AI determine a social credit score for everyone. Winner gets a free trip to El Salvador.

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      7 个月前

      I find this whole thing weird because some federating platforms (like mbin I think) already show voting users publicly