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wedrifid comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 22, chapter 93 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 09 July 2013 05:11:23AM 2 points [-]

I would guess that the LW moderators can, with at most moderate effort, find the answers to questions of the form "so, who just downvoted 20 of JoshuaZ's recent comments?"

As far as I know that feature isn't implemented. It would certainly be something that could be implemented if it turned out to be sufficiently desired. This would catch lazy mass-downvoters and force dedicated mass-downvoters to use a little more effort and patience.

Comment author: gjm 09 July 2013 09:09:46AM 1 point [-]

I wasn't (for the avoidance of doubt) conjecturing that there's already a nice UI feature where you click a button and it says "wedrifid has downvoted JoshuaZ's last 20 comments" but, rather, that (1) the information is present in the system somewhere and (2) there are probably ways for a moderator to get it, even if they're less convenient than just clicking a button -- if they thought it worth the trouble.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 July 2013 09:31:35AM *  0 points [-]

(1) the information is present in the system somewhere

It seems somewhat likely based on the first incarnation of the monthly karma feature.

(2) there are probably ways for a moderator to get it, even if they're less convenient than just clicking a button -- if they thought it worth the trouble.

This part is the unlikely part. A (system) administrator yes, if (1). A moderator, I doubt it.

Comment author: gjm 09 July 2013 09:39:29AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, you might be right; perhaps the only way of getting at it is querying the database directly.