StackExchange also has a minimum reputation requirement for votes to count. When you try to vote on something it displays a box saying the vote was recorded but doesn’t change the publicly displayed vote count.
What I don’t like about the way it is implemented on StackExchange is that it seems it’s not possible to take back a vote until you have enough reputation to vote at all.
Besides protecting the vote count from being distorted by newcomers, I think the main advantage is that it makes it much harder to farm a bunch of karma with sockpuppet accounts.
StackExchange also has a minimum reputation requirement for votes to count. When you try to vote on something it displays a box saying the vote was recorded but doesn’t change the publicly displayed vote count.
What I don’t like about the way it is implemented on StackExchange is that it seems it’s not possible to take back a vote until you have enough reputation to vote at all.
Besides protecting the vote count from being distorted by newcomers, I think the main advantage is that it makes it much harder to farm a bunch of karma with sockpuppet accounts.