Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1990160-20130325231534/@comment-1915726-20130326143513

After anon's privilege to comment is disabled, it's the conventional talk page that they can still leave their idea. In fact, if the reason is good and strong enough, it doesn't matter whether admin or anon says it. So this proposal actually allows anon to join discussion. The "kudo" thing is another little gadget to count vote in a poll. If we really want to start a straw poll, we can just tell the participants to write down their stances like support/oppose/neutral in the beginning of their message. If we're expecting a huge amount of votes we can always reopen the forum with kudo function. However, in Wikimedia, we DO exclude votes of anon or user not yet passed the autoconfirmed threshold in most circumstances because it's too easy to multi vote with dynamic IP. In a serious discussion, every participant gives their arguments to support their point. A judge or arbitrator gathers and sorts out these arguments and excludes arguments that are too weak or similar. Finally the judge weighs all the arguments of both sides to reach the verdict. So "kudo" system isn't really needed here.