Erik Moeller (erik_moeller@gmx.de) [050613 01:21]:
It's a very bad idea to use a rating system with a large scale (e.g. from 1 to 1000), as everyone will use it differently and the average becomes meaningless (as does the individual vote unless you look at that person's entire voting record). The other problem was that, due to the terminology "vote", many people were likely to assume that they only had a single vote. A 1-5 rating system (without the term "vote") would probably be optimal, but the current solution is a big improvement to make the statistics more meaningful, which will be useful to the Research Team.
This was the thinking behind a 1-4 scale for article ratings - yes/no is too binary for a lot of things, but 1-10 is too broad.
For Bugzilla votes, one vote or none is probably fine ... particularly if that's what the devs who would be paying attention to them want to measure. I'd call that an overwhelmingly convincing reason to go with the current system ;-)
By the way: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/page.cgi?id=voting.html still says "Indicate how many votes you want to give this bug. This page also displays how many votes you've given to other bugs, so you may rebalance your votes as necessary." - this should probably be changed if the system's changed.
(/me goes votes for bug 550 - any bug I can remember the number of probably deserves a vote)
- d.