TEA Moderation Poll

[EEVblog]

As the poll says.
Please DO NOT discuss it here, there is a thread for that:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/discussing-the-usage-of-the-tea-thread/

[gnif]

I would like to point out something here as some are not voting (as stated on the new TEA forum) with the rationale that the moderators can see who voted.

1) Obviously the database needs to record who voted to prevent double votes and to allow you to retract your vote.
2) SMF does not provide a way for the moderators to see who voted, period. In fact, even the SMF admin can not even access this information.
3) While I as the server admin (not SMF admin) could go into the database and figure out how to pull this data, I couldn't be less interested in doing so, I have better things to spend my time on.
4) Dave can request this information which is within his rights as the server owner, however in the 8 years I have been here, to date, Dave has never made such a request.

[EEVblog]

I would like to point out something here as some are not voting (as stated on the new TEA forum) with the rationale that the moderators can see who voted.

1) Obviously the database needs to record who voted to prevent double votes and to allow you to retract your vote.
2) SMF does not provide a way for the moderators to see who voted, period. In fact, even the SMF admin can not even access this information.
3) While I as the server admin (not SMF admin) could go into the database and figure out how to pull this data, I couldn't be less interested in doing so, I have better things to spend my time on.
4) Dave can request this information which is within his rights as the server owner, however in the 8 years I have been here, to date, Dave has never made such a request.

Correct, I cannot see who voted. There is no mechanism inside SMF for me to see this, and I have never made a request to attempt to do this, ever.
And obviously I'm too dumb with computers to go into the SQL database and search for and figure out how the data is mapped and try to decode it etc. Probably needs a siginifcant amount of work with scripts or something.
In short, your poll data is very anonymous.