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I was considering moving to mbin, but their decision to make downvoting private makes that a very unpleasant idea for me. Public voting was one of the initial selling points for kbin for me. If I move, then it's probably to another kbin instance like kbin.earth for now.
Are you not talking about this thread?
Definitely. I've applied to a handful of magazines weeks ago and have read about others having done so too. I really think magazine ownership requests should be accepted automatically on kbin.social. There's already requirements in place to whether you can make one, that should be good enough for abuse safety measures.
Instance moderators would be better, but I don't know if there's people lining up for that role whom he also can trust with it.
The issue here is that all contributors have moved on to mbin. You don't just look for contributors, the contributors choose to contribute. So unless he's willing to pay them, I don't think this is a problem he can solve, and I doubt he makes enough money to hire people.
Making downvotes private was odd to me as well. Just don't show them at all if you're going that route.
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@Drusas@kbin.social do you have a link to a discussion or documentation about down votes being private? Trying to Google this only returns this thread https://www.google.com/search?q=%22mbin%22+make+down+votes+private
From what I can tell, it's mostly brought up in the discussion of a pull request for supporting federated dislikes.
That's where I originally saw it. I'm sure there's probably some more discussion on matrix though, that seems to be their main discussion platform.
Some additional links without discussions:
Edit: Also, to clarify, it's only seeing who downvoted that's made private, the actual amount of downvotes is kept public. It's not a Youtube situation.
I'm not sure why you tagged me because I didn't say that downvotes are private.