Honestly, I don't see any real reason anyone should be able to see anyone else's votes that isn't nefarious. The only reason people would want to see how others vote is to be able to call a hate mob to harass someone for "voting wrong."

Regardless, people should be allowed to vote however they want, even if that means its not the way you or I would have voted a comment or post. People vote on posts and comments for a trillion different reasons. Someone might agree with a comment but they feel it is off-topic or de-railing the conversation so they downvote it, and then you get terminally online serial harassers attacking them because "they don't agree" or some other awful reason.

Ultimately, this ends in posts getting no more down votes, except for maybe spam posts, and then upvotes also being low because nobody wants to get attacked for how they vote on posts. Certainly a great way to ruin engagement in an online platform, IMO.

Like, just remove votes entirely at that point.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Like, just remove votes entirely at that point.

A number of communities and instances disable downvoting which helps moderate the behavior altogether. Either people agree and upvote to promote, or they GTFO and/or feel ignored.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 15 hours ago

I think it was a response to give out needed mod tools that just ran across transparency as an ideal.