short version: i gated my feedback board behind login/email and reset every existing vote to zero. on purpose. for months i read anonymous upvotes like they were data. they weren't. one click, costs nothing, tells me almost nothing. i was building a roadmap on a vanity number. the tell: someone requested "require login to vote." it hit 19 upvotes. those 19 were exactly the cheap clicks the feature kills. shipped it anyway. then the scary part. i wiped every old vote. all of them ...