On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 29/07/13 16:09, Chad wrote:
I've always been in favor of getting rid of voting entirely since
developers
don't use it for judging anything. Tried to once before, but people seem
to
like using it for bookmarking or somesuch and I didn't feel like fighting about it.
I appreciate having votes on bugs, as a measure of the popularity of a feature request. The Score extension would never have been implemented and deployed if it wasn't for voting.
Maybe no developer other than me ever looks at vote counts, but maybe other developers should start. WMF team priorities tend to be set based on the opinions of a very small number of people. Sometimes it's nice to know what users actually want most, rather than just what some WMF staff member thinks they might like.
If we want to start using it I'm not inherently opposed to the idea. I just don't like the status quo where people think it means something when it (mostly) doesn't.
-Chad