On 1/11/2016 11:36 PM, Emile Aben wrote: > [snip] > dismissing this as useless is a bit premature i think. this is an > experiment about how to get community feedback, tied to specific > resources (ripe atlas probes) this community has (ie. one vote per > probe). if the number of people that 'vote' is insignificant the > conclusion is that my attempt of collecting feedback didn't work. > > [snip]
If I want to affect the feature set of the probe, I would do so by using communication channels that are already in place, e.g., that we are using now with this mailing list. I view the probes' tags as a way to announce what the capability of the probe is, and not what I want the capability of the probe to be. I feel that the reduction of the usefulness of the probes' tags to something akin to facebook's "likes" is a diversion of purpose. If you want to have some manner of voting, then do so via your account on the RIPE website. I have to log in to the account to change the tags on my probe, why not just put a voting option on the website? I see no need, and I have no desire, to display my vote among the public data on my probe.
