Is there a way to see who likes a particular post or comment? Being spectacularly narcissistic I’m particularly interested in my own posts / comments, of course, but seeing if it’s always the same people liking my (or another person’s) posts would be interesting.
No, not without some opt-in setting that allows votes to be made public, which I can’t imagine many users would feel comfortable enabling.
There are perhaps ways of allowing what stig is looking for (“seeing if it’s always the same people liking my (or another person’s) posts”) without deanonymizing everything – maybe something along the lines of
hash(voter_id | vote_recipient_id | salt), wheresaltis a constant per(voter, recipient)pair.Maybe something like “people who liked this story also liked..”. But actually, I would opt-in to showing my likes. Dislikes would be a different story though.
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf