So, I was recently banned from a community for being a “serial downvoter”. If the votes I’ve cast there were only downvotes, that surprises me, but I’m looking to gather more information about how, historically, I’ve voted in that community before I seek an appeal with the mods.
Being banned from that community, I can’t see my my votes in that community just by sorting by “new” and scrolling through all posts in the community looking for blue (upvotes) here and orange (downvotes) there to get a rough idea of how much I’ve upvoted and how much I’ve downvoted specifically in that community. (And even that sounds like a pain.)
I tried lemvotes.org. It will give me every post and comment I’ve ever upvoted or downvoted, which is great, I guess, but it’s not really easy to see which votes were for what communities. In fact, it’s not really easy to see what votes are for what instances. Each vote has an associated link on lemvotes.org to the post (or comment) I voted on, but domain name of the link doesn’t necessarily go to the instance that hosts the post. As in (for instance) a post I downvoted that shows up on lemvotes.org with a link to a piefed.zip may take me to a post that was originally posted to a programming.dev-instance community. So the domain of the link doesn’t narrow it down any. As far as I can tell, the only option lemvotes.org affords me is to look exhaustively at all of my votes, click the link for each of them, take note of what instance/community the vote was cast on, and keep a tally of upvotes/downvotes only for the community I’m particularly concerned with, which would be super time consuming. And I haven’t found any better options.
But I haven’t really found any better options, and I’m hoping you folks might have an idea or two. I guess worst case, I can DM the mod without getting this information, but I’d really rather go into that conversation a little more informed. (And, I suppose, if I find out that the only votes I’ve cast in that community are downvotes, I might decide not to even pursue an unban. But I’ll see what I can find out, at least.)
Unless you sort ONLY by new, you’re a hypocrite who’s benefiting from the vote function. Even active sort is indirectly counting votes since the most posts with the most votes tend to garner the most comments.
All/New is the only way to fly.
I couldnt imagine using all.
Selecting the places I want to see is a big list already.
I am not going to just put crap in front of me for no reason.
I have a very selective list of “I want to see all the posts that get posted to this community” communities that I’m subscribed to that gives me like 5 posts per day at most, and I sort that by subscribed/new. Once I’m done catching up with those, I go to all/new, and I block communities I don’t ever want to see again. It’s nice because 1) I get to see all the posts I really want to see, 2) I can block the “crap I don’t want in front of me for no reason”, and 3) new communities that I might be interested in make it in front of my eyes without me having to go search for them or hope the ones I’d want to see happen to come up in a “new communities” community on my feed.
I actually only use ALL sorted by New. I don’t sub to any communities. I find it’s the best way to view lemmy. I will block communities or instances I’m disinterested in, as a way to make that feed less noisy.