Yeah, if you go to your profile and turn on “showdead”, you’ll see a lot more stuff. There are some mod actions that aren’t explicitly visible — they can boot comments to the bottom, for example, despite upvote count. But it’s a good compromise.

And I don’t think it would be a good idea for every action to be public. Maybe. It’s one of those things that requires some thought. There are a surprising number of “behind the scenes” actions, and all of them being public would just ignite a lot of “why would you do such a thing” type debate, which is both a distraction and usually mistaken.

Sometimes it’s not mistaken, though, so your idea isn’t without merit.