# Add an option for anonymous voting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-option-for-anonymous-voting/58477
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** pr-welcome, topic-voting
**Created:** [March 15, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-option-for-anonymous-voting/58477 "2016-03-15T00:10:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@JaredReisinger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JaredReisinger)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-option-for-anonymous-voting/58477/1 "2016-03-15T00:10:43Z")
If you’re adding the ability to see the list of users who voted, I’d like to request that you make it _optional_ functionality. I have a use-case where I’d like to enable voting on Q&A for company executives, and it’s been requested that all questions _and the votes for them_ be done anonymously. I have a plugin in-progress that forces posts in a particular category to be anonymous (even if Discourse’s native global anonymous setting is “off”), and it’s been working great with the current feature voting plugin because the voters _ **aren’t** _ exposed.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-option-for-anonymous-voting/58477/2 "2017-03-06T16:32:18Z")
I see the use case, but would not like to complicate things a tiny bit.
Not planning on building this for now, but #pr-welcome (provided mockups are provided first)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-an-option-for-anonymous-voting/58477/3 "2017-03-06T20:31:13Z")
There is currently a site setting to control globally if you can see who voted: `voting_show_who_voted` but there is not per-category fidelity here.