I'm starting to see some serious downsides to being able to see who downvotes you.
I'm starting to see some serious downsides to being able to see who downvotes you.
A few days ago I downvoted someone's comment, and the next day I happened to notice every single comment I've ever made had at least one downvote. All from the person I dared to downvote the ONE time. I straight up asked why they did it, and they seem to think I'm an "obvious" troll account that "apparently just exist to downvote other people". I assure you I'm no troll account, and ironically don't really downvote all that often.
I know the topic of public downvotes has been discussed before, but I never used to care either way. Now I'm kinda leaning in the "I don't like it" side. Honestly, I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel a little offended, maybe even attacked. Also, there goes all my imaginary internet points. Lol
Has anyone else had something like this happen to them, or am I just unlucky?
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You should be able to block that user from interacting with you by simply clicking on their name and pressing the block button.
That will prevent them from downvoting future posts and if you have a negative interaction with somebody you can do that as many times as is needed to create the environment that you will enjoy participating in here.
Blocking people blocks their votes, and not just prevents you from seeing their posts?
As far as I am aware, it prevents them from seeing or interacting with your account and prevents you from seeing or interacting with their account.
I know it doesn't stop them from seeing you. They can still reply to you; you just won't see it. So I'm not so sure it blocks their vote, either.
I think this is correct.
It is. Blocking is broken and does not work the way people intuitively expect.
Fixing this is one of my priorities for PieFed https://join.piefed.social