Just seeing a "count" doesn't give any indication of why they voted that way and could lead to quick, but quite possibly wrong assumptions. But I agree with the person that said it probably helps avoid more direct confrontations on here, which inevitably gets someone banned.
Besides, these forums are relatively civil. People are complaining about nothing, IMO. I've tried other forums on other topics where people gang up on others just for laughs; vote each others' reputation up constantly to make it look like everyone loves them and the moderators are part of the problem rather than the solution (i.e. you report harassment and private insult messages over a well thought out refutation of someone's BS claims and they either do nothing or actually tell you to stop arguing...in a discussion forum! Meanwhile, their "friend" gets away with calling you names, making threats and generally acting like a baby. And this is supposedly on one of the more civil forums on this subject.
Oh, and don't post more than a few sentences. That makes their brains work too hard to read it and so they just don't bother and yell at you for a "wall of text", even when you have lots of proper paragraph spacing. Ultimately, you just forget talking about said hobby and move on because you realize the people on there aren't worth talking to for the most part.
It makes me wonder about society as a whole after awhile. I think there's a reason mankind has had so many wars and so much criminal activity over the millenia. We are basically animals, one step above territorial chimps that don't want to discuss or even argue about something, but just rip another chimp's face off when they step into our territory. It's the "might makes right" mentality.
If you can't win an argument, insult or attack the person instead. The more mentally acute see this as a complete failure on the attacker's argument, but most people aren't that evolved and just laugh with the attacker, especially if they agreed with him in the first place, like some school yard bullies picking on a nerd type, who is probably 10x more intelligent than them but didn't spend his after-school hours lifting weights at the gym and so he gets his butt kicked anyway.
At some point, once again, you simply just ignore these people or move on. It's not worth trying to educate them or talk to them. They don't have enough brain cells to bother and will just get mad and try to bash you over the head again. I think in religion this is why there is a saying, "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces." The wise man that said it understood you can't educate dumb animals. They just get mad, so you kick the dust off your feat and move on or you get trampled on sooner or later.
