Originally Posted by SEA_Tigger

When you reply to a thread, your username is recorded. When you reply via private message, again your username is recorded. Even if we as a Community decide that the Reputation function has no intrinsic value to our "standing" in the Community, I agree that, in principle at least, it would be nice if such comments were identifiable by poster.

But if I am understanding some of the comments correctly, the option does not exist in the application?

I will note that I personally don't feel I have to know who is posting comments and reputations. I have three covering two threads, and all are anonymous. One negative on the 777 (though the comment was positive), and one negative and one positive on the TED article in the Las Vegas Sun, neither with any comments attached. So even if I know who made what choice when it came to reputation, it does me no good since they didn't say why.

A few people posted threads in favor of my posts, and a few posted threads taking issue with parts of one of my posts. I can assume that the positive posts sent positive reputation and the negative sent negative, but since multiple people posted both positive and negative, I cannot do a one-for-one correlation. Nor do I feel I need to. Between reputation points/demerits and replies, I can determine roughly how my position is being received. And since the reputations have no comments, I place much more value and weight on the thread replies, since they note why they agreed or disagreed with my position(s).

Now, I admit that, to my knowledge, I don't have any "grudges" being held against me, so I have to discern that the negatives were in response to what I said, not that it was me saying it. For some, the reverse may apply, and I can understand the desire for them to know who selected what, so they can ignore it if they feel it was done solely out of spite.