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@Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

what is lemvotes? it says to insert a link to give it a vote. what? I thought votes aren’t very relevant here

@Wren@lemmy.today on lemmy.today Open parent

Votes are relevant here is a different way, without the karma. They still show support and engagement, what’s popular kind of thing. Lots of downvotes can trigger a report or bots can be made to remove comments below a threshold for review. Lemmy is big on transparency, or working toward it. Right now mods of a community can easily see who voted on every post and comment in their communities, which is helpful for tracking vote manipulation. Lemvotes is just an extra step so everyone can see it. I like it because it holds mods accountable, too, they can’t just make shit up when no one can verify it.

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@Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

so hows lemvotes work? you put a url and whats it do after that

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@Wren@lemmy.today on lemmy.today Open parent

Okay, so, the instructions aren’t super clear. For a comment you click on the rainbow fediverse icon to get to the page with the right link, because the URL needs to be the commenter’s home instance. Copy/paste the URL, select “comment” and submit. For vote history, it’s just wren@lemmy.today for me, for example. Select user, submit. Posts need to be from the poster’s home instance as well, same deal, hit the rainbow coloured icon. Newer stuff might not be federated yet, so you may get an error or not see the most updated info. Users with a lot of votes will take a minute or more to load as well.

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@Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok thanks! have an amazing day, wouldn’t have known that without you saying

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Wren in !asklemmy

@Wren@lemmy.today · Dec 13

No prob, just happen to be putzing around and remembered what a pain it was to figure that out. Have fun!

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