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One idea I really liked from the previous discussion on this was to hide the Names of all comments for a few hours.

This way comments really can be voted on their merits rather than the fan club of the commenter.

This could become very confusing on new comments with several layers of response/conversation going on. That said, I like the spirit of the idea.

Perhaps the names on a particular thread in the discussion could be revealed once you vote or comment on that thread?

I'm going to vote against this: I personally never look at names anyway. Eyes jump between comments themselves, and only if a person is marked as a friend do I lift my eyes up in a "oh yeah, it's you again" tilt.

If you never look at the names, what does it bother you if the names are or are not shown?

Because it's nice to be able to quickly find out what the name is once I do.

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