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No way. The admins can see them already.
You should not be afraid of the opinions of the people. You should seek to understand and possibly change it if necessary. It is a far better meter stick of how people really think if it's anonymous, and it also stops users being hounded.
Doesn't matter on Hexbear since I upvote randomly.
alright what kind of political organization we gotta do to remove upbeats from this website
I'm going to make a bad-take-liker alt specifically for lurking so that people know to feel a deep sense of shame when they see that I have liked their post.
edit: alt account #2 will like at most one other user's comment every day, you will have to find them all in chronological order to read my manifesto. Skipped days are paragraph breaks.
I’m in favor of information symmetry between admins and users. That data is in the database and we’re trying to foster a pro-social environment, so being able to see who’s voting on what might help that along. Just please don’t start sending notifications for likes like Facebook and TikTok do
sounds cool
It'd make it much easier to weed out transphobes and misogynists, the latter which this site has had a historical issue with.
Idk why bother, either way it won't make lemmy less full of liberals who would use ul a genie wish to make NATO rule the world and think it's a "promoting freedom" or something rather than U.S. imperial ambitions
~~Nah. If mods can already see this, I’m fine leaving it as is~~ if massive nerds can already see it, might as well make it public
Please don't. I've been "investigated" (harassed) off other sites that had this.
Are the admins/mods willing to be extra trigger happy with bans if/when this is used to harass people?
Or will this just chase lots more users to hexbear? 
I have zero skin in the game, so from a personal perspective I don't care either way. Everybody is going to find out that I upvote shitposts and people who respond to me—that's going to be the extent of my consequences if votes go public.
Philosophically I think transparency is better than obfuscation. Especially since a dedicated user can figure the info out right now, anyway.