And what would the Monastery think --if technically feasable-- to allow only the original poster an automatic view (i.e. without having to cast any type of vote) of the reputation of the answers? This would allow the original poster a quick overview of the "quality" of the answers without influencing the rest of the Monastery when casting votes.

Of course it should not be available to Anonymous Monks.

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law