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).
Or start with zero and don’t allow voting on one’s own posts at all. The whole idea of voting is getting the community’s opinion after all
Yes thats how i imagined it, should have made that clearer.
I’d still say start at 1, I think maybe seeing the 1 might motivate people less to make alt accounts to upvote themselves?