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Johnw1104 on 20 April 2018
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Aeolus451 said:
Johnw1104 said:

I disagree with that anonymous bit... If you feel strongly enough to have an opinion about it, openly state and explain it, as anonymous "like/dislike" is both lazy and possesses no value. As we've seen plenty on the downvote option of the articles posted to this site, it will otherwise devolve into people simply downvoting anything they don't care for, regardless of how valid the post actually was. Those poor, poor Xbox fans... :p

I can live with a "like", but I'm whole-heartedly against the addition of any "dislikes" or "I disagree" options.

Anonymity allows for true honesty. The vast majority of people won't be honest if they know that they'll be persecuted for agreeing with a person who expressed a dissenting opinion. It's one of the reasons why we protect the identity of voters  and who they voted for from being public. 

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.

Aeolus451 said: 

We can agree to disagree on a dislike option.

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