On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The main reason for not enabling voting everywhere is
that votes need to
be considered a source of input in the planning process. If votes do not
influence decisions, users just get fooled.
Yes. Absolutely agreed. Let's not have it just as a feel-good thing
that isn't really influencing anything.
My current feeling is that votes in bug reports do not
influence any
decisions, so I personally support switching them off entirely.
I'd like to keep them at least for the Wikidata-related bugs. The
votes there are taken into account.
Cheers
Lydia
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