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Comment author: Pentashagon 15 February 2013 07:58:41PM 2 points [-]

Me too.

In seriousness, I was thinking that allowing us to see who has upvoted our comments/posts would probably be helpful and encouraging, although hiding who has downvoted would help protect the voter's integrity and help avoid downvotes being taken as a personal insult.

The risk would be the development of identifiable cult followings, undeserved reciprocation of upvotes, and similar.

Comment author: drethelin 15 February 2013 11:25:10PM 0 points [-]

Identifiable cult followings is an upside. We WANT people who get upvoted by the same people over and over to be noticed for this, and to notice it.