Is there a way to see who voted (upvotes and/or downvotes) on your answers and/or questions?
- 11Votes are anonymous by design and there are features available to mods and devs to spot vote fraud.ChrisF– ChrisF2011-12-23 12:29:43 +00:00Commented Dec 23, 2011 at 12:29
- 9@Scrooge is right, but if you sense strange voting behavior, don't hesitate to flag or contact administrators.Someone– Someone2011-12-23 12:31:03 +00:00Commented Dec 23, 2011 at 12:31
- 4I want to know who has eaten my last cookie, the one I kept for a special occasion!avpaderno– avpaderno2011-12-23 14:56:39 +00:00Commented Dec 23, 2011 at 14:56
- 2Any time you see truly suspicious up-votes, flag for moderation. Give a concise, detailed, description of what you find odd about the situation. Moderators do look for "sock puppets" to prevent reputation inflation and the flags help to keep things honest. Feel free to downvote bad questions and answers, too. Every bit helps.sarnold– sarnold2011-12-24 03:57:23 +00:00Commented Dec 24, 2011 at 3:57
- 1See also Revealing Identity of those who Vote Up or DownSomnath Muluk– Somnath Muluk2012-08-08 06:52:58 +00:00Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 6:52
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No, voting is by design anonymous. Not even ♦ moderators have access to information on individual votes.
The only way you will find out who voted for you is if someone decides to leave a comment saying so and maybe their reason. This doesn't mean they couldn't be lying also.
(To tell if, and how, you voted on a specific post, your votes are stored in a database. And of course Stack Exchange employees do have access to that information, but it's only used in exceptional circumstances, such as investigating voting fraud.)
No. Voting is anonymous.
By design, the site has anonymous voting. Except for developers, NO ONE has access to viewing such things, not even moderators. Having voting made public would cause nothing but problems
Users may bug others about down votes they gave out
Who needs to know up votes? You just got +10, what more could you ask for?
- 13. If someone know that you upvoted something, he could theorically pay you (unlikely to happen on SE sites, but real votations are secret because of that). Where "real" means "elections in countries" (I don't pretend to say SE votes are not real XD)CoffeDeveloper– CoffeDeveloper2015-05-18 09:59:52 +00:00Commented May 18, 2015 at 9:59