I was just thinking it might be nice to see what your top 10 upvoted and downvoted accounts are. I think people have a general idea of their top 5 but I think some may be surprised when they see the actual list. Even Voyager doesn’t have this.
The idea of keeping history of your vote count for each user has garnered interest and conversation and I think being able to see your top 10 list may yield some as well. Or is it just me?
I think its just you, IMO.
Personally, I think this could lead to altered voting habits where people see a name and always up/down vote based on where that name appears in the last, instead of voting based on the actual content.
For example, if UserX appears in the top 10 most downvoted accounts, then a user might be inclined to automatically downvote every comment they see from UserX because “I always downvote this user.” But this could be bad if UserX makes a post that should be receiving upvotes based on the content (for example, a helpful answer to a question that leads to better discussion), because now it will be getting what I would call “artificial” downvotes.
I dont look at accounts when I up/down vote content. I just look at the content. I dont need an app or platform to track what accounts and how many times I up/down vote on their content because in the end it shouldn’t matter: I up/down vote based on the content whether it matches my opinion or not, not the account, and that leads to better comment spread and essentially self-moderation, where good and helpful content is at the top and useless content is at the bottom, it doesn’t matter who writes it.
The user vote total setting is not on by default so if someone does not see any point or value in it, then they can just leave it off.
At least for me, I’m not predisposed to voting based on a user vote total. But I did recently read a post where someone mentioned they automatically downvote some posts without reading as a Reddit habit. So I can understand if some have reservations. But I don’t think that user is representative of a large swath of Lemmy users. And not everyone had the user vote total setting on.
That said, I do appreciate your input and reply. It was just an idea I had and if it’s not a good idea, well that’s fine.