Probably not gonna work very well with a bunch of bullet holes in it.

You’d probably be tossed out a window before the day was over, TBH.

There’s like 2 FAQs linked by OP, you could have looked at them…

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq

show runner who isn’t going to monkey with the source material

When’s the last time THAT happened?

rather than the far more likely situation of rewrites and editing.

At this point that feels like the bigger assumption

If votes became truly public

There’s no ‘if’, they already are.

what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made?

The same thing currently stopping them: nothing but time and effort.

Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.

No, anybody can currently do this.

That’s the issue with decentralisation. The info is out there. It’s that or trust a megacorp with it.

ITT: Lots of people who have no idea how the tech works and couldn’t be bothered reading the comments before posting

Ah… I’ve heard more than one person saying they can see it despite having blocked bots and not seeing other bots. Sounds like there’s a technical issue somewhere.

Pretty much all Israel sites, for one. Jerusalem Post, etc.

It’s a standard lemmy feature, yes.

… that this bot doesn’t respect.

Some people have mentioned https://ground.news. I haven’t tried it, this is not a vouch for their credibility.

Mods, not admins. Though there’s some overlap in this case.

Not the whole comment, but the word would get removed. It also applies to any comments posted to communities hosted on the server.

So much for free speech, eh.

Jihad, civilised disagreement. Potayto, potahto

Many people disagree with the bot existing. Blocking it is just a surrender, downvotes show that the disagreement continues and lets others know it exists.

Says an attempt to manufacture outrage.

I hate to say this, but you’re exactly the reason why Youtube and other services feel safe and comfortable enshittifying their services.

Capitalistic? Lemmy.ml does it too.

You mean things like babies with extensible arms?

This isn’t lemmy, this is a specific community. And your argument brings us back to the whole issue between mods and community members.

Being a dick to someone trying to make the place better

Members of a community do have a stake in the community, and in this case, are trying to keep the place from getting worse. It’s an open question who the dick is in the discussion, especially since it was an open call for feedback that then subsequently ignored every comment that disagreed with the idea. It very much came across as a call for ‘positive feedback only’.