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what is lemvotes?
it says to insert a link to give it a vote. what?
I thought votes aren't very relevant here
Votes are relevant here in 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.
so hows lemvotes work?
you put a url
and whats it do after that
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. It should bring you to a list of up and down votes, who made them, and when.
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 to get the link.
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.
oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok thanks! have an amazing day, wouldn't have known that without you saying
No prob, just happen to be putzing around and remembered what a pain it was to figure that out. Have fun!
thanks you too! :D