On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
> On 29/07/13 16:09, Chad wrote: > > I've always been in favor of getting rid of voting entirely since > developers > > don't use it for judging anything. Tried to once before, but people seem > to > > like using it for bookmarking or somesuch and I didn't feel like fighting > > about it. > > I appreciate having votes on bugs, as a measure of the popularity of a > feature request. The Score extension would never have been implemented > and deployed if it wasn't for voting. > > Maybe no developer other than me ever looks at vote counts, but maybe > other developers should start. WMF team priorities tend to be set > based on the opinions of a very small number of people. Sometimes it's > nice to know what users actually want most, rather than just what some > WMF staff member thinks they might like. > If we want to start using it I'm not inherently opposed to the idea. I just don't like the status quo where people think it means something when it (mostly) doesn't. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
