Originally Posted by
starflyergold
The plug-in allows members to see who "rated" the post.
That will cause serious drama + extra work for mods. No value in that here.
Personally, any negative comments (as in thumps down etc) would not be helpful on FT.
Definitely disagree. There's crappy content, wrong answers or people that reply before clearly reading the post. Many, many valid reasons to say the post wasn't useful. In some forums, you use the balance of +/- votes to determine whether or not the content even appears in the viewing stream. That's likely far too complex for IB to even consider though.
Why not use the current "rate thread" system?
If implemented properly, valuable info could be gained for FT as well. You can see how unhelpful some of your "evangelists" really are, and what an asset other members are.
Voting options spawn conspiracy theories re: people "gaming the system" to always have their content upvoted + content from certain others downvoted. Good luck with that.