I am a fan of anonymity for the likes. To some degree or another we are nearly all anonymous on this site anyway, we have a user name (that I have yet to see be someones real full name) and some generic gender/age/region information if you look at someones profile.
I kind of like being able to be lazy and just hit a like rather than replying to someone's post with agreement. If I think they said something extremely clever then I'll go the distance to reply ... typically.
I too share another user's concern that a list of who liked a post would further clutter the site (not that it is really bad or anything) and if the list is implemented I would prefer to see that list hidden by default with a "show" button or some such next to the like button that will show who liked the post for those few that I think would be interested. If that didn't happen you could still block the element. This would be most important on the mobile version of the sight I would think where screen space is more precious.
If the whole "well my post got more likes so I'm right" fear turned out to be founded couldn't a rule against such posts be made?
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