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.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lauren-phillips-lifting-alice-merchesi

The OG, for reference

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

When’s the last time THAT happened?

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.

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.

Must have a heavy burden to bear

Jesus does not approve of this comment

Hey, nice tits!

I can’t tell if that’s worse for guys or gals

!Asian has a grand total of 2 posts, ever, 1 of which was 10 months ago. It’s not going to get more active when there isn’t even a seed of activity to begin with.

When’s the last time you shaved your beaver? Ew.