Hypothetical situation:
A moderator of a site posts a terrible answer in the main (not meta) site they are a moderator of.
Can they see the identities of people who downvote it?
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10moderators can't see who votes anywhere. – user400654 Sep 11 '20 at 20:44
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1Thanks. Didn't find that one because it mentions "developers" and "admins", not moderators. – Organic Marble Sep 11 '20 at 20:56
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2The duplicate was about staff, not moderators. Reopened. There's probably one about mods already but that wasn't it. – Catija♦ Sep 11 '20 at 22:06
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5Does this answer your question? Is there a way to see who voted on your posts? cc @Catija - Is this one a bit better? – Spevacus Sep 11 '20 at 22:23
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1@Spevacus yeah! That looks a lot better as a duplicate target. – Catija♦ Sep 11 '20 at 22:26
No. Upvotes and downvotes are anonymous, even moderators can't see who did them. They can see some information (see here) to help them identify voting fraud, but otherwise no.
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It's very easy for moderators to use those tools to work out who's downvoting what, especially if the downvotes happen rapidly after a question or answer has been posted – Richard Sep 11 '20 at 23:32
