On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 09:34 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 08:21, Luis Villa wrote: > > When we get the upgrade done, this is a moot point- developers can > > choose not to recieve mail for votes. > > Does that really make it a moot point? I believe that allowing voting > would indirectly encourage users to also add worthless comments, usually > without having read previous comments in the bug. (e.g. "It's so > annoying to not have this feature. I think that GNOME should have had > this ability in Gnome 2.0, why does it still not have this > functionality?") Of course, additional comments need to be read in case > they contain useful information, but I believe that turning on voting > would make this harder as I think that it would increase the noise. And > I think there's already a high noise to signal ratio in the comments > (but then again, maybe that's just my opinion as a bugsquadder who looks > for noise in bugzilla in order to try to remove/reduce it). It could do just the opposite, couldn't it? I mean, instead of banging on a keyboard and creating noise, the users could just be lazy, vote, and move on.
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