Maybe I’m oversensitive? We all know our votes here are public record, but to me it seems like weird, obsessive, and unhealthy behavior.

It definitely is a red flag for me to the point where I wonder if I shouldn’t just outright block people who go around making it known it’s something the participate in.

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    Legitimately the reason I hesitated to block people I was reporting on reddit.

    Lemmy’s public downvoting could be easily gamed.

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          Ok who’s 002? As you can see from my instance, you probably can guess I know who rimu is.

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            That extremely personality disordered person with one or several accounts on multiple instances that is mostly a repost bot, claiming none of it is scripted, which is an obvious untruth.

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        I envy your lack of imagination.

        Let’s say 0.5% of users care enough about unreported bots to downvote or report them. If all information is public, you can quickly hide your bot comment or posts from that 0.5% and dodge being detected by the community.

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          How do you hide from those 0.5%? Blocking someone stops you seeing them, it doesn’t stop them seeing you?

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              Yes, to the complaint of many but that’s how it currently works.

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                There’s no good solution.

                Now I can follow around people who blocked me and subtly accuse them of all sorts of awul things and they won’t see it.

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                  Yip that’s the complaint about it. Lots of problems with no obvious solutions. I’m not sure how Piefed handles it.