Is there a way to see who voted (upvotes and/or downvotes) on your answers and/or questions?
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6Votes are anonymous by design and there are features available to mods and devs to spot vote fraud. – ChrisF♦ Dec 23 '11 at 12:29
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7@Scrooge is right, but if you sense strange voting behavior, don't hesitate to flag or contact administrators. – Mystery Dec 23 '11 at 12:31
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2I want to know who has eaten my last cookie, the one I kept for a special occasion! – kiamlaluno Dec 23 '11 at 14:56
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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 Dec 24 '11 at 3:57
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1See also Revealing Identity of those who Vote Up or Down – Somnath Muluk Aug 8 '12 at 6:52
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1I have found that reporting anything to the mods is useless, no offense Christ but its a fact that I have observed first hand. If you report someone they know or are friends with, you are SOL. I can't tell you how I know but I know for a fact. If people were not anonymous in their voting, then they would be less likely to be purposely vengeful and/or destructive in their goal to mothball someone's legitimate question because they know they can be publicly held accountable for bad behavior. This would deter trolling. After all if you do something, you should stand by your action or don't do it. – GµårÐïåñ Nov 7 '13 at 6:13
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1I, personally, would like to know if any of the high-ranking members of StackOverflow, those for whom I have a great deal of respect, like Jon Skeet, have ever upvoted any of my posts. – Bob Kaufman Feb 5 '16 at 15:04
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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.)
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Can't you get this kind of information from the database dump? Not in real-time, of course, but eventually? – Graeme Perrow Oct 10 '09 at 19:22
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Ok I understand that Developers do but What about community/site moderator? – Pandya Dec 3 '16 at 2:57
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No. Voting is anonymous.
answered Aug 6 '09 at 23:14
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@Pierre.Vriens The support site (meta.stackexchange.com/help/security-reports) recommends that you contact them directly (meta.stackexchange.com/contact) if you have found a bug or security vulnerability. I suggest you do that. If you don't get a resonable response, you should consider following a responsible disclosure process (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure) where you publish in stages, giving SE a chance for fix the problem before the final details are made public. – Simon P Stevens Apr 20 '17 at 20:49
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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?
answered Dec 23 '11 at 12:59
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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) – GameDeveloper May 18 '15 at 9:59
