I can think of a reason. You cannot correlate a vote from an anonymous person to other votes that person made. If you get six times a -- because "the voter doesn't like you", but you don't know who it's coming from, does that mean someone has a deep grudge against you? Or are you just generally unpopular.

Also, if the -- vote is because "I don't understand the post", does that mean the voter is just picky, lacks knowledge, or whether your post is really unclear? If the voter is someone you think has a pretty decent knowledge, and doesn't use -- often, it's most likely the last reason. If the vote is anonymous, who knows?

It's the same reason some people aren't interested in contributions of anonymous monk - the postings can't be put in a perspective. Same with anonymous vote reasons.

Abigail

In reply to Re: /msg me the reason of -- by Abigail-II
in thread /msg me the reason of -- by Jenda

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