I never really thought about the automatic self upvote on Reddit and Lemmy. But after reading this article Dont let me like my own post, i’m wondering if we should just get rid of it. Its not really adding anything, or does it? Plus removing it would slightly simplify the code, and slightly less federation messages would get sent (probably unnoticable in practice).
i personally prefer the stackexchange model of default being 0 and no self upvotes.
but in general as long as it’s consistent i suppose it doesn’t matter an awful lot.
I agree. A nice way to resist spam bots would be to restrict voting to accounts with some sort of threshold reached (whatever that is), just like on stackexchange.