I'm not sure what would be lost allowing an individual to hide their voting history. While it would be "anonymous" its not like you can vote without a log in or more than once so their is not integrity of the vote loss.
Some people might not want you to know they voted against something or worse, have someone "harass" them because they voted against their idea.
I voted no on this, but if it also included a way for the admin of the site to decide whether to implement this at all, then my vote would change to yes. This way, companies that wanted to allow anonymous voting could while companies that wanted to know who was voting could.
If this is an idea for an entire IdeaJam site, my vote is "demote." If it means that certain IdeaSpace's can be set to anonymous voting, then it is "promote." But until there is some clarification, I've gone with "No Opinion."
From an application standpoint, configurability is salability so commercially it's a good idea. Philosophically anonymity promotes honesty this is why democracy kinda works in principal.
If we are talking about the postings here at IdeaJam, I like to see how people vote on my ideas. Don't hide the votes. If we are talking about the features available in IdeaJam if I were to buy it and use it within my company, I would want an option to hide the votes.
It's like the votes in Congress - NOT anonymous, vs. voting in elections - anonymous. Each has its place.
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