Quote by nicola
What was happening, was people from other sites / bored idiots / trolls / people trying to vote stories off the top lists for their gain etc, were voting every story a 1, without even reading them. I'd then get an inbox full of complaints, and lots of bad feeling on the site as a result. Not to mention the time wasted going in and clearing out all the 1's and 2's from each story.

So, it protects the authors from thoughtless voting, and saves me hours of admin time. Win win.

A simple solution was to force membership, which means they are then held accountable. The anonymous 1 votes disappeared overnight.

Quote by nicola
You can't vote less than a 4 if you're a non-member. It's to stop driveby down-voting, which we used to get a lot of. Now people are accountable for their actions.

Quote by nicola
Anonymous commenting was trialled here, it was a disaster. When people aren't accountable for their actions, you know the rest...plus the spam issue.

Quote by She
I know we have option for non members to vote on our work, mine is always on..My question is if it would be posible to maybe have the same option for guests of the site to leave comments as well? I it is unlikely that lots of guests read poetry, but still it would be quite interesting for me to see those comments.

Quote by Dancing_Doll
These non-commenter type readers are unlikely to take the forced-comments option to heart and sit down and write up some stellar, constructive or complex thoughts about your writing... so really in my opinion, it just forces those types to drop the "loved it" or "good story" throwaway comments. It kinda defeats its purpose. The people who like giving feedback will give it anyway. The ones that don't are likely to avoid scoring altogether or will toss you the obligatory two-word pat on the back - not necessarily because your writing inspired them to - but because you made them say something.

Quote by Milik_The_Red
Not precisely it doesn't, but as it happens I just received a 4 on Myra's song. The comment was that it was too long and he lost interest. As I received an email telling me a vote was casts and it had received all 5's to that point, I knew by default what he voted. I sent him a thank you for letting me know what he didn't like. He shouldn't be called out for voting his mind, it's just nice to know why he felt that way.