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Comment author: Gurkenglas 06 October 2015 04:04:49PM *  2 points [-]

Could we ask an admin to make a graph of all users on LW, with edges saying how many posts of one user another has upvoted, and all name labels removed except advancedatheist's?

The numbers would have to be shuffled enough that no group of people could use public karma counts and their knowledge of whom they upvoted to gain too much info that ought to be anonymous.

Do we have a crypthography expert that can think of an algorithm that would work for that?

Or the admins could leave out the shuffling/delabeling and only examine the graph to see whether the situation is reasonable.

Comment author: Lumifer 06 October 2015 06:21:21PM 2 points [-]

That seems way too much work for a little bit of internet drama.

Comment author: ChristianKl 06 October 2015 08:05:00PM 0 points [-]

Basically work that's not done by asking an admin to do it but by somebody writing the necessary code (the system is open source) and then giving that code to be run against the database.