Not what we were told in BETA. It is tracked and they know who is clicking what. When a post is removed, the associated thumbs up / thumbs down are removed. And we have seen thumbs down just disappear. By not allowing us to know who did the thumbs down and by not showing us which post receives a thumbs down on the notifications, they have created an environment of child’s play and abuse.
That strategy will not work. It just confuses the newbie when solid answers are given and makes Amazon think it is a tool that people like because it is being used. We told our contacts during beta that we would not use it because of the abuse that was going on with it (yea … even in beta there was abuse). If we disagree with a post, we feel it is better to give a verbal reason as to why with validation. If we are not sure on a post, we ask questions for clarity or keep silent and read on … either way we learn.
There was a group of us in beta that tried hard to get things corrected and improvements made. Sadly, we see that most of us have stopped posting as frequent as we use to. Really don’t know why but the saying “you can only bang your head against a wall for so long” does come to mind …