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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? |
Except people should always have a right to privacy and they shouldn't have to explain that to anyone. I had a friend who was stalked one time. Being able to remain anonymous even on a poll gave her a sense of control. Sure, it's nice if everyone wants to chat and whatnot, but if someone wants to remain anon, it shouldn't be looked down upon or judged. Let it be. There are many reasons to remain private.
Also, as for cheating, I used to run cover polls on my blog before a new release. I didn't even think to mark "vote only once." Well, good grief. I had people voting 20 times! So I marked "can only vote once." Next thing I knew people were writing to tell me they went to the library so they could log on there and vote again!
Not that it matters to me overmuch. The polls were in good fun. But some people do get invested in their own choices. Shrug. I don't judge that either. It's generally not going to throw things off by much and many times you can tell the votes are stacked and account for it when trying to tally the results.