I get your point but if you want to just lurk and read don’t vote either

I don’t want some nutjob with too much time stalking me because I upvoted something about climate change or downvoted some bigoted shit.

They can read your comment history why would you care about them being able to see what you upvoted?

Voting on Reddit-like platforms is soft moderation by a community, and if you disincentive that,

How does that disincentive it? It actually makes it better