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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
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  . |
If the cases cannot be compared, then why are they relevant?
I am aware that you did not say a user should be able to post anonymously. That was MY comparison, because I feel it is a logical extension of the desire to vote anonymously about a topic that is central to the "forum" aspect of this particular forum.