If you can run queries on the backend database, it’s rather easy to discover voting shenanigans. The problem, as I understand it, is that right now mods have to ask Trike specific questions and Trike isn’t speedy about getting back to them.
That said, if we can define the characteristics of some standard queries we would like exposed (for example, ” Top Upvoters, 30 Days” and “Top Downvoters, 30 Days” as Vaniver mentioned) Trike might be willing to expose those queries to LW admins.
Or they might not. The way to find out is to ask, but we should only bother asking if we actually want them to do so. So discussing it internally in advance of testing those limits seems sensible.
If you can run queries on the backend database, it’s rather easy to discover voting shenanigans. The problem, as I understand it, is that right now mods have to ask Trike specific questions and Trike isn’t speedy about getting back to them.
That said, if we can define the characteristics of some standard queries we would like exposed (for example, ” Top Upvoters, 30 Days” and “Top Downvoters, 30 Days” as Vaniver mentioned) Trike might be willing to expose those queries to LW admins.
Or they might not. The way to find out is to ask, but we should only bother asking if we actually want them to do so. So discussing it internally in advance of testing those limits seems sensible.