meta: now that only the poster can see his/her post's score, others can't tell if a post with a question interests many in the community or not. Previously, edw519 (or others) could gauge using the question's score the community's interest.
In a pragmatic sense, it's not far fetched to assume that a question that you can see interests many people (but only few can answer) will have more chance of being answered than a question that appears to interest only Joe User.
Now, if I want to show interest in the question, edw519 can't see my upvote(1) and thus it's useless in the "showing public support" sense. The only thing I can now do to show public interest is a "me too!" or a "yes, do tell!" post, which I guess all of us would like to avoid.
(1) maybe with enough karma you CAN see everybody's score, idk, but the point still stands
In a pragmatic sense, it's not far fetched to assume that a question that you can see interests many people (but only few can answer) will have more chance of being answered than a question that appears to interest only Joe User.
Now, if I want to show interest in the question, edw519 can't see my upvote(1) and thus it's useless in the "showing public support" sense. The only thing I can now do to show public interest is a "me too!" or a "yes, do tell!" post, which I guess all of us would like to avoid.
(1) maybe with enough karma you CAN see everybody's score, idk, but the point still stands