App's are not being taken seriously

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The reason responses are anonymous are to protect the poster and allow them to put an honest opinion without starting drama. By allowing ratings, you give the option to allow posters to publicize their opinion so that the applicant or perhaps others can approach that person and ask them about their opinion. This is helpful especially to the applicant to try to change the negative points about them.
If you ask someone about their rating and they say “it’s just a meme” and you’re worried or discouraged still, I think you need to relax lol.

Of course it could sway somebody’s opinion as well to see a staff member or a friend or whoever they respect publically disagree, but they wouldn’t disagree or have good reason to disagree just for that reason alone. Perhaps they’ll approach that person and ask and their opinion will change based off that response, and that’s a great thing. It could bring up a point they hadn’t previously thought about, and it’s important people voting on an application here much like real life can get as much information about the person as they can before they make a decision so it’s educated. Not everyone is here for everything, so spreading information is important in that regard.