Comments and Likes

All Flaunt Files can be commented upon by the viewers, provided such a viewer also has an account with us. Comments are visible only to the original author and the current viewer (and for anonymous viewers, see below). That means if 10 people have commented on a particular page in a Flaunt File, they cannot see each others' comments. But the author can see all of them. Also, we never place the names of the commenters on those comments. Similarly, when you like/unlike a Flaunt File, only the author gets to know about this. Nobody else.

The reason for this way of commenting and "likes" was inspired by The Delphi Method -- Read about that here: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/delphi-method.asp (and other places)

Comment visibility for anonymous viewers If an anonymous viewer visits the Flaunt File link, comments made ONLY By the author of the Flaunt File would be seen. Such anonymous viewers cannot enter a comment, though. Tackling Cognitive Bias It is important that a Flaunt File author gets good comments and "likes" with as least cognitive bias as possible. Often in social media, the reason for public display of all comments is simply to encourage people to get addicted ("dopamine hit") whereby increasing the registration/popularity of the service rather than adding value to the author of the content. In those places, many place comments only because they get drawn to some other comment/s and not because of original thinking. Also name attributions often get in the way of a proper discourse. Some simply hate/love the name of a particular commenter (Religiously biased people, for example) A similar issue tend to be seen when the number of "likes" are publicly available. It promotes herd-mentality. A piece of content that is liked by someone else may end up attracting more "likes". At Flaunt Files, we are not really keen on providing dopamine hits! In our soon to be released Flaunt Cast (Flaunt Files "Gallery"), we are toying with the idea of announcing the percentage "likes" (w.r.t the no of views) on a Flaunt File instead of the actual number; thereby allowing all kinds of Flaunt Files to grow in popularity. Also, please note that the author privately gets to see the actual "likes" count and also be able to read the number of "comments" obtained on a Flaunt File. The author also gets an email for every comment placed (even if the comments were deleted later on)

All this raises some questions which we have explained more in detail in the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). Note that all comments should be limited to 512 characters, and must not contain any foul language or clever scripting injections. We may even ban such accounts.