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An idea I just thought of would be to keep the poster anonymous until the post achieves a certain rating - after that show who the poster is.

If there actually is favoritism this might solve that issue somewhat and yet give people credit where it's due.

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yes, but sometimes the reputation is valuable. Given a poster's prior probability of intelligent comments, you have more information on which to vote.

You also allow him to relax his quality while enjoying his automatic points. Plus group-think lock-in for free.

I can only reducing this making the overall quality here improve.

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