Hiku said:
You're not explaining how I was supposedly wrong.
Allowing for more honesty does not mean it doesn't also allow for more dishonesty. The two are not mutually exclusive.
But I will tell you what you are wrong about, and why:
"the only reason why someone would want no anonymity online is so they can hunt down anyone who's offensive, has a dissenting opinion/guilty of wrong think, etc in order to punish them and dissuade others from being open about what they think. It's authoritarian and will always bite you in the ass."
If someone makes a post about how great Suikoden 2's story is, I'd love to know who feels the same way. There are many times when I've wanted to say that "I agree" with someone, but because I had nothing more to add, I didn't do it because I didn't want to spam up the page. But if there's a like button, I'll hit like.
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Problem solved, people should express those thoughts in the thread and likes should only be viewable to the author of the liked posts at most. For the most part, the names of the users who liked the post should stay anonymous since more transparency would only breed discourse along these boards with multiple faction groups ...
When we have some posters here who are extremely divisive, the like system only serves to feed into negativity and further enforces echo chambers ...
This community doesn't have a majority but it sure as does have a strong plurality ...
