Steven Walling wrote:
> Moodbar was not built to be a general purpose issue reporting tool. And
> definitely not something that could or should replace an issue tracker. It
> is designed only for asking newcomers whether they are having a generally
> positive or negative experience and why, so that we could get an overall
> read on the mood of new editors. Either outcome could in fact be the
> product of totally normal experiences on Wikipedia.
> 
> As for the "colorful faces" you seem to dislike, well, it wasn't designed
> with your demographic in mind. To date hundreds of editors are not only
> successfully reporting issues, they're getting responses from other
> editors: https://toolserver.org/~dartar/fd/

I'm not following you (and I'm not sure you're following me). Wikimedia's
response to the "gather user feedback regarding the site" issue has been
MoodBar, which, regardless of the demographic I happen to sit in, looks
ridiculous. I can find a number of people from other demographics who agree.

You write that MoodBar wasn't built to be a general purpose issue reporting
tool. But you also write that hundreds of editors are successfully reporting
issues and receiving responses from other editors. Something isn't aligning
here.

As I said, a generic reusable feedback tool that doesn't treat our users
like retards would be cool. MoodBar _might_ be version 0.1 of this concept,
but it needs a lot of work.

MZMcBride



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