Johnw1104 said:
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. :) |
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.
