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Former Redditors are used to upvotes/downvotes being private by default.
But this really depends on the user. Most reasons for this would be privacy related reasons.
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Some users vote differently knowing that their votes are public. If they want to vote freely they would consider an option like this.
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To combat profiling from others/corporations.
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To avoid certain users that take downvotes way too seriously.
I’m fairly certain that I checked it out on Kbin.Social about a month or two back and it still worked then, but Kbin.Social is currently down for maintenance, so I’m not sure.
How long ago is “quite a while”?