• Ghostbanjo1949A
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    4 months ago

    What is the benefit here in this case? Basically why do we care who upvotes or downvotes something that it needs to be exposed?

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      4 months ago

      Obviously I don’t have all the answers, but from my point of view it would help against things like astroturfing or vote manipulation.

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        4 months ago

        I had to look up astroturfing in this context, so hopefully I got this right. But isn’t that just the actual commenting then? Obviously voting could get that comment moved closer to the top when done by the perps in this case but I think it would take the community to also be up voting the comment for it to rise to the top. I also don’t think knowing who commented actually fixes this issue nor does it give more ability from an admin perspective to get rid of those comments if that was desired.

        I could be missing something though.

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          4 months ago

          Yes, in my opinion astroturfing and vote manipulation go and in hand. For me it’s not just an admin perspective, I Think users having this kind of info can be beneficial. Admins’ (or mods’) interests aren’t always aligned with users’ interests, as reddit has taught me.