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On Tuesday 27 July 2004 2:45 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Those are assumptions based upon a very large amount of evidence |
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So you admit that they are assumptions, based on anecdotal evidence. |
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> No, I'm saying it's an indicator which already exists if someone wants |
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> to find out how popular their bug might be, nothing more. However, Cc: |
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> list spamming is pretty pointless, whereas vote spamming could be |
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> construed to mean something. |
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Funny, that's the idea. It's not spamming if you have a finite amount of |
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votes. People can spend them any way they choose. If you spend your |
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votes on enhancement requests to app-misc/hello-kitty, that's your choice. |
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What ultimately matters is the sum of all user votes. It's safe to say the |
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top-10 most voted list would be something we should consider paying more |
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attention to. |
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> | I frankly don't understand why you're so outspoken on this issue. You |
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> | can ignore votes if that's what you choose to do. This is not a |
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> | policy change proposal, this is an enhancement request for Bugzilla. |
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> 1) Because it will lead to "this bug has over a hundred votes, why is |
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> it being ignored?" posts. |
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And would such posts be unreasonable? I don't think so. If a bug has a |
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large # of votes relative to everything else, and it IS being ignored, |
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it's a valid question. |
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> 2) Because it is yet another field in bugzilla. We already have far too |
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> many clicky boxes for most people. |
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We have a wizard bug reporting interface which does not change as a result |
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of bug voting. At most the bug page will show the # of votes, and will |
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add one more link at the bottom to vote for the bug. Big deal. |
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Keep reaching. |
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> 3) Because it will lead to vote spamming. Search the Off The Wall forum |
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> for "portage ignorance" for a good example of why this won't work. |
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Hmm, voting seems to work pretty well for KDE and Mozilla, among others. |
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And it's a trivial change, which again, you seem to be reaching for |
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reasons to shoot holes through. If it doesn't work out, we turn votes |
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off, it's as simple as that. |
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> | Also please read: http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/16.19.shtml |
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> Posting irrelevant links does not make an argument. |
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It's not irrelevant, if you actually take a minute to read it instead of |
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posting more FUD against bugzilla voting. |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson [absinthe@g.o] |
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