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GeneralSomeone is Downvoting my Messages Pin
Shahin Khorshidnia4-Jun-12 4:26
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Shahin Khorshidnia4-Jun-12 4:41
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Manfred Rudolf Bihy4-Jun-12 5:24
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Shahin Khorshidnia wrote:
Do you have any idea?


No, I don't have any idea how this could be over come. As I already stated I do feel though that your idea cannot be implemented without some drastic changes to the voting system as currently implemented. Let me go into some detail here:
Right after the principle introduced in the modern fable Animal Farm: "Four legs good ,two legs bad ..." are not all animals CP members equal. Some members are "more equal" than others, meaning to say that the impact of a vote a member with a high reputation in a certain category casts is greater than the impact of the vote of a member with a low reputation in that same category. Only in a group or society where everybody has the same power is anonymous voting obsolete. The anonymity protects the weak.
That is one of the reasons why casting ones vote in an election is an anonymous process.

One final idea though I'm sure it will not be well received:
So when power comes with responsibilty so why not also do we have to be held accountable for our actions.
Meaning: When somebody with a high impact votes, the identity will be revealed to the receiver of said vote and a reason for the vote will have to be given analogous to what is already implemented in the article section.

Cheers!

"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925


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