User blog comment:WhiteSeraph/Article Tier Idea/@comment-1536954-20130428053359/@comment-1745925-20130428055118

This returns to the old debate about the Australian Ballot, commonly known as the secret ballot. The way the argument for the old, non-secret ballot went, it ensured people would vote and they would know who voted and where the support came from. This was a good idea, in theory.

In practice, this resulted in a system of peer pressure to vote a certain way, and politicians who would use their diplomatic influence to attempt to garner as many votes as they could. This is in itself a subversion of proper democratic procedures.

In addition, having to go through the comments which are already reasonably long creates room for error in counting. This makes merely counting in itself less reliable than the other votes as it allows human error to subvert the democratic procedures.