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.
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.
(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.
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.
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.
It seems somewhat likely based on the first incarnation of the monthly karma feature.
This part is the unlikely part. A (system) administrator yes, if (1). A moderator, I doubt it.
Yeah, you might be right; perhaps the only way of getting at it is querying the database directly.