This hasn't really bothered me. But I just noticed (not that I haven't noticed before, just that it wasn't extremely important) that when I am looking at posts, I either have a chance to vote, or the reputation of the post is listed. I think what made me think about this is that I can't view the reputation of the post until I vote. I know this is probably a cheap ploy to make me vote, but I tend to reserve my votes through out the day so I can actually remember to vote for someone instead of putting it on a to do list. And thus the crux of my post. Is there any way for me to view both the reputation and whether I've voted for the given node at once?

What would the ramifications of such a system create? Less votes? A divide between upvoted posts getting a whole lot of upvotes and downvoted posts going down? In other words, were there valid design decisions to avoid these types of bias?

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

In reply to Is voting/reputation a design decision? by PsychoSpunk

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