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Can't we have something like this? -- Those who want to see points, could enable it, but then they would not be allowed to upvote/downvote. OR they could still vote, but their votes won't be counted (or given less weight-age?).

Does it serve the purpose for both the sides? What are the potential caveats in this?

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Potential problems: 1) people would set up two accounts, one to look at points and one to vote (and then log into both of them on separate browsers). It would be possible to modify the site to detect this, but that would be extra work for pg. 2) It would take less than a week for a browser extension that did this automatically (putting points into a page) to be released - there's already one attempt to build a database of points with an extensions (it records the score of points of anyone who has it installed and makes that information available to others).

It's a good idea on its face, but it wouldn't work.

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