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Re^3: Possible changes to Voting/XP (tracking)by tye (Sage) |
on Jan 23, 2004 at 05:09 UTC ( [id://323447]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Of course voting is tracked. How else could we know you've already voted on a node (and thus show you the reputation instead of voting buttons). The fact that most of the down-votes are cast by a few users was based on the results of a query that showed recent down-vote counts per user ordered from most to fewest. I did it a while ago but I doubt I went to the extra effort to display monk names so the query probably just showed user ID numbers. In any case, I was looking at the counts not the users and I don't recall any monk names nor ID numbers. I don't really care how any user votes. I sometimes care about how the voting system is working or not working (usually when someone complains). Pretty much anything you do on a computer can be monitored by some administrator somewhere. I've administered computers in some capacity for two decades. One doesn't abuse privileges to go poking around at information one has some personal issue with as that could lead to finding it, which just sucks (you can't do anything with the information and there is a point to the phrase 'ignorance is bliss'). It has been many years since I made that mistake (and even worse is *having* to deal with personal information of non-strangers as part of your job). - tye
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