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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I am trying very hard to see your comparison, but I am afraid I just don't quite get it. 
We are voting about our favorite books. In the Reading Recommendations forum.
I think it is reasonable to expect that people who are going there to advocate their Best Of books, would and should interact with people in the process. If I were posting about a book I liked and suggested others should read, I would not demand MobileRead hide my username by that post.
I humbly posit that the entire point of such a poll is in order to share with other people. It is difficult to do that when one is arbitrarily getting all inscrutable.
I believe we should follow the example of the Book Club.
To be honest, I am completely baffled at why anyone would WANT to hide their vote. Why would they even bother to vote anyway, in that case? |
Perhaps you should not be reading my post as being a comparison, but rather be reading it as one giving examples of the type of experiences that may make some posters wary in forums and elsewhere. Such experiences elsewhere, which can involve polls/voting (I mentioned unions and clubs), may just result in a conditioning that leads one to make a general rule of never voting when ones own vote is visible. Also the reading is that I, for one, am not prepared to make judgments about nor question any particular poster's decision regarding their own privacy.
In the end, if you are baffled, I suspect that you will remain so.
A small point of clarification: nowhere have I meant to infer that, as you state, if a user should make a post about a book that they are entitled to demand (or expect) their username to be hidden. For myself, I have openly posted about some of the nominated books, however, if the poll was to be public I would not be voting, and if it were to be private I may not be voting for the books I have discussed. Sorry if that, as I suspect it will, increases your level of bafflement
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