Why don't we just change the text "vote" to "follow" or "watch"?


On 12/30/11 12:51 PM, Helder wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 18:03, Thehelpfulone Wikipedia
> <thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> If you vote for a bug then you are automatically added to the CC list and 
>> you it's a nice way to keep track of the bugs you are interested in using 
>> 'My Votes'. However, at first when I saw the votes system, I too believed 
>> that more votes = more quickly done. As this is not the case, removing votes 
>> might be a good way forward.
>
> Actually, when we vote for a bug we are not added to its CC list
> (which would cause an email to be sent to everyone already on that
> list), but we get followup messages anyway. This way, the votes can
> also be used for silently watching some bugs without bothering others
> with emails which just say we were added to the CC list...
>
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