"Likes" Enhancement

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Hiku said:

If I'm not the author of the Suikoden 2 comment, I can't see who agreed with it.
And as TalonMan said in the other topic, and I agree, there have been many times where I wanted to express that I agree with someone, or like something they said, but refrained from doing so if I don't have anything else to add. So problem is not solved there.
More transparency with the like system should not breed more discourse for the same reason people refrain from posting things they don't want to be associated with. Because they know others can read their posts, and in this case see their likes, they'll refrain from doing it.

There are positives with anonymity, but I argue that due to the nature of the internet, the negatives are more frequent. How do you think these console war discussions would look like if there were no moderators on this site? Many people behave only because there's accountability.
When people who have been banned come back with new accounts, they generally don't use that newfound anonymity to behave well.

Console wars are a thing on here if I'm not mistaken so a transparent like system would be abused by group think on multiple sides of the fence which only raises future potential tensions for those that don't subscribe to the group think on here but another case I would like to point out is the "one man army" trying to strong arm themselves up against a section of a community on here which aims to demean the single poster by "teaming up" on their favourite side to give their group the numbers advantage by perceptively making their opposing user(s) less legitimate with little or no likes ... 

My concern is not about the individuals specifically but rather it's about community wide abuse or to put it more apt, the "tyranny of the majority" where the community makes use of the tool (transparent like system) to implicitly ostracize either groups or especially individuals ... (transparency makes that confrontation far more explicit and it could ruin or change perceptions on a lot of online relationships especially when you can like posts "shaming" other posters here)

A transparent like system makes discussions far less inviting when you are clearly dealing with a "side" instead of a single poster ... (transparency is arguably a regression since behaviour is more likely to revert back to tribalism)