I believe Flow is going to or could be changed to solve this issue of upvoting comments. I was more interested in hypothetically if it was possible, I hadn't really thought too much about whether it would be useful or not.
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > I fully agree with Dan on that. I'd be much more interested in +/- votes on > feedback statements. I think that might be a direction worth exploring. A low > barrier like that might help bring a more complete picture of sentiment on > problems and ideas. > > DJ > > On 20 aug. 2014, at 19:08, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 20 August 2014 09:16, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure how related is this, but Article Feedback allowed user rating >>> + comment, and it was deployed in Wikimedia servers. Editors didn't find it >>> that useful for regular articles (too much extra work processing too little >>> value feedback on top of Talk pages), but maybe this could (with small or >>> not so small adaptation, I don't know) in the very specific context of a >>> beta feature page. >>> >> >> Speaking as someone who's been the product owner of a beta feature, I know >> I'd find a star rating for a beta feature totally useless. Star ratings >> don't tell you anything about *why* a user likes or dislikes a feature, so >> I have no information to go off. >> >> In terms of getting feedback from comments, you're right that that's >> useful. But I can get that right now by going to the discussion page of the >> beta feature. Bear in mind that the Hovercards talk page on mediawiki.org >> was, for a while, the most active Flow page *across the entire cluster.* >> >> So, I'm left a little unclear what the proposed improvement actually is. >> >> Dan >> >> -- >> Dan Garry >> Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps >> Wikimedia Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
