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We are allowing accounts above level 6 to look at which accounts vote on posts and how they vote. Our intention with this feature is to provide greater transparency on the site. We want to provide as much transparency as possible on poal. However allowing brand new accounts that haven't participated access to this feature would probably be abused. We may adjust the level in the future. However for now this is a test case to see how it helps with the brigading problems we have had over the past few weeks.

Someone noticing they are constantly getting downvoted by same accounts can report them to admins' PM, in which case we will review the situation and act accordingly, and as usual, those actions will be documented in and the site logs.

Thanks to for all his hard work on poal.co

Sincerely Boobs2.

EDIT: We have modified the feature to just show downvoters account names. After discussing it at length with the community this seems like a better option.

We are allowing accounts above level 6 to look at which accounts vote on posts and how they vote. Our intention with this feature is to provide greater transparency on the site. We want to provide as much transparency as possible on poal. However allowing brand new accounts that haven't participated access to this feature would probably be abused. We may adjust the level in the future. However for now this is a test case to see how it helps with the brigading problems we have had over the past few weeks. Someone noticing they are constantly getting downvoted by same accounts can report them to admins' PM, in which case we will review the situation and act accordingly, and as usual, those actions will be documented in /s/sitebans and the site logs. Thanks to @AOU for all his hard work on poal.co Sincerely Boobs2. EDIT: We have modified the feature to just show downvoters account names. After discussing it at length with the community this seems like a better option.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I can see the use for sure, but I think it could easily be used for the wrong reasons. Imagine this feature through a malicious person's point of view, it will definitely be abused. Like I said, now it may be fine with this particular group of users, but as you grow I bet this will start to cause problems between users. Its good to see you guys are trying to fix the problems regardless.

[–] • 2 pts

Well lets cross our fingers and see what happens, I can see it being used that way sure, but I'm hoping it does more good than harm.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Just so I'm not one of those people that bitch but don't offer solutions, here was my other comment on it.

"Couldn't you implement a threshold where if a person down votes someone else so many times in a short period of time then admins get notified? That way you can look and see if it's spam or brigading. Realistically you guys are the final word anyway so you'd have to wade through complaints in the current system regardless."

There's my 2 cents. Thanks for taking the time to listen to the users.

[–] • 3 pts

I did see that comment thanks for offering up a potential solution.

[–] • 1 pt

I think this is a mistake but I would be willing to settle for a trial run ...say two weeks...but in the long run this is a mistake due to privacy and free speech...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot