Mithical
Votes are anonymous. Scrounging vote stats on profile pages to see who's cast votes on a small site to try to figure out who's downvoted something is highly discouraged, and calling people out for it is definitely over the line.

DonielF
Why are vote stats displayed on profiles?

Mithical

gs
let's read the git log about it
I traced it back to the earliest user profile pages written back 5 years ago
I couldn't identify a reason, I'd guess "just because it was easily and readily available" the first living version already had that https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/commit/90a8cb1683cc90ad8bd928742c3a32d5ee761d64

cellio
When Art wrote QPixel originally he was probably thinking more along the lines of an SE clone as opposed to a new thing. Originally Codidact was going to start fresh with all new code, building from the start what we wanted to have, but that turned out to have issues. So we decided to start with QPixel and evolve it into what we want. This is one of those underlying assumptions, inherited from SE, that I'm guessing no one thought about. I think it makes sense to show voting history only to the user, not publicly.

gs
what if we went all the way around. Instead of making everything vote-secret, make everything vote-public
excuse me I ignore if there's already a meta post about it

DonielF

what if we went all the way around. Instead of making everything vote-secret, make everything vote-public

@gs NONONONONONONO

gs
why not? I mean

DonielF
Already with reactions and “me too”‘s we’ve had people say they’re only interested in voting and the like only because of anonymity involved; they don’t want it to be personal.

gs
if voting is even moar secret than in SE, there'll always be people thinking staff cheats scores

DonielF
As if scores do anything?
Also, everything is open source
There’s no way for staff to cheat votes

ShowMeBillyJo
Well, direct database manipulation - the data isn't open source

gs

Already with reactions and “me too”‘s we’ve had people say they’re only interested in voting and the like only because of anonymity involved; they don’t want it to be personal.

aha so r you basically saying it's a community choice?
and I mean a per community choice

ShowMeBillyJo
I think it'd be an interesting thought exercise to explore fully open votes, even if it doesn't get implemented

DonielF

aha so r you basically saying it’s a community choice?

@gs I’m not necessarily saying that, but I’d be comfortable with such a policy.
Look, if y’all really think this is something that should be explored, Meta awaits

gs
I'm lazy to write the post but give me a link I can upvote

Mithical
There are also some ancient forum discussions about this.

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Mithical

There are also some ancient forum discussions about this

https://forum.codidact.org/t/proposal-votes-scores-and-answer-order/385/19