Insofar as your point is about deanonymization, I’ll say that so far in the LW team we’ve tried hard to not share data about identities within the team and definitely not outside of it. When I wrote that sentence I was primarily meaning “while aiming to minimize any deanonymization within the team” e.g. if we have to, one person checks an identity and doesn’t tell it to the other team members. I almost didn’t even think about public deanonymization as a possible outcome. When I said “pass over the votes” I’m primarily expecting us to look at userIDs which are long number/digit strings and avoid looking at actual usernames.
I only expect us to look into identities if something obvious and egregious is happening. I’m not sure what to say other than this is how it’s kind of been most of the time (e.g. this has happened in the past when we’ve looked into sockpuppets) and I don’t think you need to worry about this if you’re not trying to game the system and you’re not actively trying to exchange votes.
Same goes for other mod powers (e.g. bans), I think it’s very unlikely you’ll be affected by these things this week unless you’re consciously engaging in vote trading.
(I’ve also opened a PM chat with you if there’s things you’d like to say/ask privately.)
(Responding to your “To be clear” edit.)
I see.
Insofar as your point is about deanonymization, I’ll say that so far in the LW team we’ve tried hard to not share data about identities within the team and definitely not outside of it. When I wrote that sentence I was primarily meaning “while aiming to minimize any deanonymization within the team” e.g. if we have to, one person checks an identity and doesn’t tell it to the other team members. I almost didn’t even think about public deanonymization as a possible outcome. When I said “pass over the votes” I’m primarily expecting us to look at userIDs which are long number/digit strings and avoid looking at actual usernames.
I only expect us to look into identities if something obvious and egregious is happening. I’m not sure what to say other than this is how it’s kind of been most of the time (e.g. this has happened in the past when we’ve looked into sockpuppets) and I don’t think you need to worry about this if you’re not trying to game the system and you’re not actively trying to exchange votes.
Same goes for other mod powers (e.g. bans), I think it’s very unlikely you’ll be affected by these things this week unless you’re consciously engaging in vote trading.
(I’ve also opened a PM chat with you if there’s things you’d like to say/ask privately.)