Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…

What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: Obligatory RIP my inbox.

  • newIdentityEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    And the one in the open can be abused by everyone. Not just one bad actor.

    • damnYouSunEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Well, only really by owners of instances. There no way for me to know what you voted because I don’t run the server.