Then I’d be more concerned about that and your posts rather than if you happened to up or down vote something.

And if that doesn’t work check the physical connection by unplugging it and plugging it back in.

If someone tries to harass me about how I vote I’ll just block them.

You are doing it privately. Nobody knows who amju_wolf is, or where they live.

How does one “behave as a shithead via voting”? If someone decided to waste their time following me around Lemmy and down voting my posts it’s not going to do very much.

Incorporating that in a way that doesn’t allow for vote manipulation by just lying to a server that different “anonymous” users have up or down voted a post sounds incredibly difficult, and not worth it for the narrow use case of “prevent my votes from being data mined even though all my comments can.”

datamining my voting patterns for building a deeper interest profile.

They can already datamine your posts.

The same argument could be made about your posts. Maybe a user tends to post things that aligns with a certain group, just as easy to track that (if not easier) for targeting.

Not to mention anyone with the tech to do this already can by creating their own instance so they can view votes.

For me the latter will produce a chilling effect on how I operate with the site

Why?

I still don’t support anything which lowers the friction of vote stalking

I don’t follow, what are people going to do from being able to see votes that they can’t do by seeing your posts?

Your votes are as public as your posts. I see you have no problem posting so I don’t understand what the issue is.

Hot fix: end downvotes. Just yank them out of the system. Actually my preferred solution.

God no. Websites with just upvotes have some of the worst threads because a small pocket of stubborn idiots keep upvoting each other.

Democrats believe that we can reduce gun violence while respecting the rights of responsible gun owners. We believe we should expand and strengthen background checks for those who want to purchase a firearm – because it shouldn’t be easier to get a gun than a driver’s license. We believe we should ensure that guns don’t fall into the hands of terrorists (whether they be domestic or foreign), domestic abusers, other violent criminals, or those who have shown signs of danger toward themselves or others. And we believe we should treat gun violence as the deadly public health crisis it is.

Looks like you’re the one that needs their hand held.

That’s good!

I was once cleaning outside and had a customer tell me “You missed a spot!” He then proceeded to laugh his ass off the entire time he was walking away from like it was the funniest joke he ever heard.

I wasn’t even mad. If it brings you that much joy you do you man.

I always wanted to ask someone in tech support: is there a useful shorthand to indicate “I have a decent understanding of how to operate my computer, and I’m calling you because I don’t have the security clearance to fix this myself”?
I have no problem following the specific instructions I’m being given, but we could speed this along if you know you can just tell me to “open command prompt” instead of explaining the steps of how to do so.

Job: Supervisor

Customer pays with a $50 or $100 bill and the till requires that I check it

Customer: “It’s good, I just printed it this morning.”

Some days I just had to pretend I didn’t hear them.

Pro tip: if you have a “go to” joke you always say in a given situation, guaranteed the person you’re saying it to has already heard it several times this week. Just don’t.

And before anyone responds with “they’re just trying to improve your day” they’re not. If I don’t find the joke funny they get offended, that means they aren’t doing it for me, they’re doing it to show off how great and funny they are.

Pro tip: don’t tell someone a joke if you’re going to be offended if they don’t laugh.

My first reaction was to look for the onion

That’s bad