On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 12:19:32 UTC, Daniel Murphy
wrote:
"Brad Anderson" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
I do find myself agonizing over what vote to drop whenever I
hit a new issue I want to add a vote for so I'm in favor of
this too.
That's the point. Currently a vote means "this issue is in my
top 10" or at least "this bug annoyed me enough I made a
bugzilla account" but with many votes each it simply means "I
have encountered this bug"/"I have seen this bug report". The
more votes per user the closer they get to a meaningless "+1".
Then again, I never look at votes when deciding which issues to
fix, so changing it won't really affect me either way.
Statistically speaking, making a vote more meaningless and
increasing the total quantity of votes will actually increase the
accuracy of the statistic. When looking at a single person, a 10
ten does hold more value than a top 50 or top 100. But when
looking at the aggregate of all votes, more votes is better.
