Stack Overflow makes cast vote counts public, so one could get an idea of who is doing the voting. Figuring out who is voting on what would only be possible if you’re watching everyone always (and even then it won’t work if user displays only update periodically).
I do think that there’s value in someone looking at the vote graph, be it humans or automated processes.
Making voting public would go a long way.
...towards LOTS of drama, enemy lists, political intrigue, etc.
Stack Overflow makes cast vote counts public, so one could get an idea of who is doing the voting. Figuring out who is voting on what would only be possible if you’re watching everyone always (and even then it won’t work if user displays only update periodically).
I do think that there’s value in someone looking at the vote graph, be it humans or automated processes.
That value depends on how much value there is in karma to start with. Preoccupation with karma is a bad sign.
The map is not the territory, but that doesn’t mean there’s no value in cartography!
Cartography is valuable, but if an explorer spends all his time reading and redrawing maps without venturing outside, something is wrong :-/