Show who voted?

Question

It useless hidden who upvote/downvote is better known to the person who receive it, why hide it?

Answer 1

I agree. I would like to see the users that are voting on my thread (if it can't be showed to public, I would like to see it privately, at least)

Comments

not sure at all of that , some people will downvote other people just because he got downvote for another one , and it must be anonymous depending on the content value.

Answer 2

There are multiple reasons why this may not be a good idea. People may be less willing to vote (especially downvote) when they know their vote is visible. We do not want to discourage downvoting as it is a part of this website and the scoring/reputation system that needs to remain healthy. We would also want to avoid situations where users start downvoting someone, just because they have received a downvote from them. Moreover, users that downvoted could be chased on this site (or even in the game) with questions/threats to retract their vote.

We think it is a good practice for users that downvoted to post a comment on what could be improved, but we don't want to enforce anything.

Comments

An option can be, before you down vote you need provide some feedback. This help to correct the problem and revert the vote.

Answer 3

I agree..I don't like the idea of the unknown :P