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I'm on the fence with this issue.

On the one hand, it could be looked at as a deterrent for excessive upvoting or serial downvoting (i.e., bad voting patterns). But on the other hand, doesn't the daily vote-fraud-protection scripts already handle that?

My bigger concern is that by doing this, voting is no longer anonymous. Only the team should be allowed access to this info as they are the ones maintaining this data. Wasn't that the whole point? Viewing another user's rep decreases due to them downvoting was removed as it indirectly identified them as a downvoter.

I have faith in the mods that they'll do the right thing, but this is not something that they should have to police, only the higher-ups. Yeah, this may mean that it would mean less eyes to look out for this but so what? It's only ever really a problem when a normal user notices and reports it in meta or a team member sees how ever they see it.

I'm leaning towards a no here unless there's data to back up the idea that this is a major issue that's happening every day.

I'm on the fence with this issue.

On the one hand, it could be looked at as a deterrent for excessive upvoting or serial downvoting (i.e., bad voting patterns). But on the other hand, doesn't the daily vote-fraud-protection scripts already handle that?

My bigger concern is that by doing this, voting is no longer anonymous. Only the team should be allowed access to this info as they are the ones maintaining this data. Wasn't that the whole point? Viewing another user's rep decreases due to them downvoting was removed as it indirectly identified them as a downvoter.

I have faith in the mods that they'll do the right thing, but this is not something that they should have to police, only the higher-ups. Yeah, this may mean that it would mean less eyes to look out for this but so what? It's only ever really a problem when a normal user notices and reports it in meta or a team member sees how ever they see it.

I'm leaning towards a no here unless there's data to back up the idea that this is a major issue that's happening every day.

I'm on the fence with this issue.

On the one hand, it could be looked at as a deterrent for excessive upvoting or serial downvoting (i.e., bad voting patterns). But on the other hand, doesn't the daily vote-fraud-protection scripts already handle that?

My bigger concern is that by doing this, voting is no longer anonymous. Only the team should be allowed access to this info as they are the ones maintaining this data. Wasn't that the whole point? Viewing another user's rep decreases due to them downvoting was removed as it indirectly identified them as a downvoter.

I have faith in the mods that they'll do the right thing, but this is not something that they should have to police, only the higher-ups. Yeah, this may mean that it would mean less eyes to look out for this but so what? It's only ever really a problem when a normal user notices and reports it in meta or a team member sees how ever they see it.

I'm leaning towards a no here unless there's data to back up the idea that this is a major issue that's happening every day.

I'm on the fence with this issue.

On the one hand, it could be looked at as a deterrent for excessive upvoting or serial downvoting (i.e., bad voting patterns). But on the other hand, doesn't the daily vote-fraud-protection scripts already handle that?

My bigger concern is that by doing this, voting is no longer anonymous. Only the team should be allowed access to this info as they are the ones maintaining this data. Wasn't that the whole point? Viewing another user's rep decreases due to them downvoting was removed as it indirectly identified them as a downvoter.

I have faith in the mods that they'll do the right thing, but this is not something that they should have to police, only the higher-ups. Yeah, this may mean that it would mean less eyes to look out for this but so what? It's only ever really a problem when a normal user notices and reports it in meta or a team member sees how ever they see it.

I'm leaning towards a no here unless there's data to back up the idea that this is a major issue that's happening every day.