Even then, I think it’s a bad precedent. It makes Lemmy feel toxic.

I don’t think votes should be private (as that leads to all sorts of complications, especially with fighting bots/spammers), but I think Lemmy/Piefed should encourage a culture of not highlighting it, unless it’s strictly for a spammer or some other objective rules violation.

Lemmy hides it by default. They hide it for a reason, whatever you want to define that reason as.

It feels icky to work around by posting the list of downvotes.

I’ll debate over that, but I’m not going to beat around the bush or start a snarky semantics argument over a linguistic error I made.

Yeah. I made a linguistic error.

Point is, it feels icky, which is why it’s hidden by default.