When we launched the first iteration of this slider feature for a forum-wide event, it was anonymous. We later decided to make it non-anonymous because we thought it would make people more bought into the poll (because they would be interested to see the opinions of people they recognise, and would take their own vote more seriously because it was public).
I think broadly speaking this worked, and people were more bought in to later polls. Letting people add comments was also intended to move further in the direction of âprompt for individuals to stake out their positionsâ (as opposed to âtool for aggregating preferencesâ).
I wouldnât want to add the option of voting anonymously because I would guess people would use it just because itâs the lowest effort thing to do, even when thereâs no real downside to having people see their vote. If people do want to vote anonymously they can always create an anonymous account, so a high-friction version of the option does exist.
(and: on the point about anon-voting being potentially hackable/âknown to CEA, fully anonymous accounts are the simplest way round this too).
When we launched the first iteration of this slider feature for a forum-wide event, it was anonymous. We later decided to make it non-anonymous because we thought it would make people more bought into the poll (because they would be interested to see the opinions of people they recognise, and would take their own vote more seriously because it was public).
I think broadly speaking this worked, and people were more bought in to later polls. Letting people add comments was also intended to move further in the direction of âprompt for individuals to stake out their positionsâ (as opposed to âtool for aggregating preferencesâ).
I wouldnât want to add the option of voting anonymously because I would guess people would use it just because itâs the lowest effort thing to do, even when thereâs no real downside to having people see their vote. If people do want to vote anonymously they can always create an anonymous account, so a high-friction version of the option does exist.
(and: on the point about anon-voting being potentially hackable/âknown to CEA, fully anonymous accounts are the simplest way round this too).