Hey, The comment on votes has been talked about several times but your idea sounds quite good. In fact when you said "it could also be treated as an anonymous message" you came up with a way to implement it quickly and probably painlessly. Simply add an option in the user preferences to display a text input box to message authors. Then update the voting code to check for these message boxs and send the message on the users behave. I think that the messages shouldn't be anonymous but thats neither here nor there. It would provide a nice simple feedback mechanism using mostly existing parts and could address what I see as a legitimate issue. You'd get my ++ if i wasn't suddenly out of votes for the first time in what seems like a year!

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