It highlights the exact risk of anonymity. People want the ability to troll without anyone knowing it is them.

Far more no votes than there are people arguing for anonymity in this thread.

I really don't get why people even have a problem with the likes in the first place? Also yeah show who liked what 👌

The site is once again split in half

I say yes.

You are comparing apples and oranges. You speak of people being "persecuted" and reference anonymous voting, seemingly forgetting that this is a forum primarily meant for discussing (again, DISCUSSING, not anonymously liking/disliking heh) video games. The secret ballot makes pragmatic sense to avoid voter intimidation in the real world; here, we aren't at risk of being bullied into voting a Mussolini into power or having our families threatened for letting out our inner Nintendo fanboy on occasion.

I've seen people fight here, but I've never seen literal "persecution".  So long as you remain civil, you can take just about any stance on any issue under the sun, and chances are there's someone else here that will agree with you.

I will agree to this only because refusing to agree to disagree would perhaps suggest that I did, in fact, agree... or something. :)

I don't think it should display users. All it will do is reinforce cliques and add nothing.

I noticed neogaf recently started enabling “likes”. Perhaps this is in reaction to them doing it. I don’t mind. Honestly don’t understand why so many ppl have issue with it.

YouTube and Facebook have had it for many years.

This is a forum where we can converse about most topics and we do. Even in the video game related threads, quite a bit of controversy happens with dissenting  opinions. We honestly don't need extra drama and potential witch hunts started over someone liking a post. Whenever there's a "like" feature in forums/social media, it's anonymous for users to like something in general. That's the case for the vast majority of forums/social media. There's no reason to want to know who likes something unless you want to use that against them in some way. I meant persecuted in that way btw. 

I would not display who liked a post, that is just more food for bait/trolling/downplaying

Man some of you guys are acting as if that little like button presents a seismic shift in the nature of this site. You already have user points/score under your avatar rewarding you for the quantity of your posts.....is it really going to kill you if there's a little number under your individual posts that lets you know a few people agreed with, and/or enjoyed what you said? I could make one hell of a case that the former is a lot more harmful to posting habits than the latter, just saying.


In any case, as it pertains to the OP, I'm all for transparency on who's liking what.

I don't mind them, and displaying user list is fine, but the more stuff you add the more clusterf*$%-y it gets. IMO, you guys should get rid of signatures and level the "like" bar with the bottom of the avatar, even If the post doesn't require that extra space. 90% of posts are just few lines long, so most of the time, the forum would take a shape of stacked rectangles, which would be so much more pleasing to the eye than this ... BLOODY SINGING AND DANCING, BLUE LINK, WHICH ANNOYS THE HELL OUTTA ME RIGHT NOW, WHEN I'M TRYING TO POST THIS IN QUICK REPLY ... for example.