altariaking
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You know how you can make comments on peoples posts? Yeah..would it be possible to read who sent them?
Only staff can. If members were to read who sent them, they could get easily offended and confront those who gave those comments (especially when bad rep was around in the past). It's just saving less drama this way.
That being said, the staff members are usually very mature about it. They don't just sit around and fling poo.
With the reputation system, regular users weren't able to see who sent it to them either. It's all basically to avoid any complications between members. Like the old saying, "the less you know, the better." So, if you received a negative and/or unwarranted comment to your post, then report it to a higher up. Even then, post comments are rarely looked upon since they aren't as big as the reputation system was and cause no harm to the receiver of the post comment.Back to normality, we had a rep system that listed people who sent the reps to you. That was a poor time, though.
If you knew who sent that comment, then I'm sure you wouldn't just avoid them. Thinking like anybody else, you would go up to them and say something at the very least. This is what is trying to be avoided. However, if you receive a post comment that is purposely rude towards you, then that is something worth reporting to the higher staff to check on.You say it's too "avoid complications", but you're talking about letting anybody message a user anonymously any content they wish. I'm pretty sure I've got one that just says "shut up". (EDIT: That's "shut up ass". Charming. At least I know I've got a distinct personality)
On the other hand, does anyone actually pay attention to it? It's hardly going to affect how you write posts or anything. Seems like another pointless feature to me.
They don't just sit around and fling poo.
We save that for Monopoly night.
And I think it works much better this way, seeing who left a negative comment would only make the member more likely to 'return the favor' by leaving a similar comment on on of the other party's posts. This way the system is rarely abused in such a way.