I disagree with the idea of upgrading or degrading a poster anonymously without a reason.
If you want to "score" someone on their post, surely you should have to give a reason why you did so.
Do you think anonymous grading is the way to go?
frogboy77
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VernonDozier
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Anonymous isn't the way to go. I'm unanonymously evening out this post with pos. rep.
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Jump to PostUp or down voting a post anonymously doesn't affect the person's rep points. All it does is show whether or not you liked the post, nothing more. That is not the same as the question you posed in the poll.
Jump to Postof course it would be easier if someone flags your post as 'not relevant or wrong', that they should state why, so the actual poster might explain himself better, or understand where he went wrong.
on the other hand, there are tons of posts 'out there' with as only contents:
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Jump to PostIf you say a post is good or bad, you always have to why.
The poster of the post can probably find ways to improve himself with the comments given.
Jump to PostIf you say a post is good or bad, you always have to why.
Voting is completely anonymous outside of a direct database query, which only Dani presently has access to perform. With the current vBulletin back-end, reputation is not anonymous, but a comment isn't required. As best practice I'd …
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I upvoted this post, Just because :)
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