Would allowing preformatted anonymous critical comments help?

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It's sometimes frustrating to get downvotes on posts without getting any feedback on what's wrong with them.

Would people be more willing to provide critical comments if they could choose from a list of preformatted critical comments and post such a comment anonymously?

The comments would be preformatted so that they can't engage in anonymous personal attacks.

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It'd certainly be interesting if people automatically got a second tier of options of "how this question/answer is bad" when they click the downvote button. "Inaccurate", "Misleading", "Unreadable", "Inapplicable" etc...
– Darius Jahandarie
Mar 30, 2016 at 22:34
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It doesn't matter if it would help, if you can't get SE to implement it.
– CodesInChaos
Mar 31, 2016 at 7:56
@CodesInChaos I don't think that's true. Exploration of the solution space is a good way to better understand the problem, even if some of the solutions end up being expensive or infeasible.
– Darius Jahandarie
Apr 1, 2016 at 20:15
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@DariusJahandarie There has been a lot of discussion on this and SE didn't implement anything. For example: 1) Allow users to leave an anonymous comment when voting 2) Allow anonymous feedback on a downvote to be given through radio buttons 3) Select from list of reasons when performing downvotes
– CodesInChaos
Apr 1, 2016 at 20:34
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Maybe create an account with publically available password and have people use it to explain their downvotes? And name it Shy-chan or something.
– kuchitsu
Apr 12, 2016 at 22:04

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