1. Yes. I don't care about the reasons for downvotes (or upvotes) from anonyms.
2. Nothing. The point is ... the XPs themselves are not really important. The fact that the way I speak annoys people or that something I wrote is simply wrong is. I don't care about revenge downvotes.
3. The reason is more important than the vote. To me at least :-)

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You say that the reason for the downvote is the most important thing, but you also say that you're not interested in the reason behind the downvote if the voter would rather remain anonymous. I don't understand... why wouldn't you be interested in the reason just because you don't know which monk it's coming from? (Obviously the vote is not from Anonymous Monk since he is not allowed to vote.)

-- Mike

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I can think of a reason. You cannot correlate a vote from an anonymous person to other votes that person made. If you get six times a -- because "the voter doesn't like you", but you don't know who it's coming from, does that mean someone has a deep grudge against you? Or are you just generally unpopular.

Also, if the -- vote is because "I don't understand the post", does that mean the voter is just picky, lacks knowledge, or whether your post is really unclear? If the voter is someone you think has a pretty decent knowledge, and doesn't use -- often, it's most likely the last reason. If the vote is anonymous, who knows?

It's the same reason some people aren't interested in contributions of anonymous monk - the postings can't be put in a perspective. Same with anonymous vote reasons.

Abigail