Tim Starling wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
In the past you had many votes to give away but they were a finite resource. When a bug was given a massive amount of votes by one person it meant that the request was really important.
Maybe that's what it meant to you, but what did it mean to the 170 out of 320 voters who have only voted for one bug? And what did it mean to the many people who voted with a value of 1, without ever giving consideration to multiple votes?
As for the rest of your post, I've always done my best to do the right thing by Wikipedia and its users, I know you're annoyed that that's a "p" in the middle of the word instead of an "m". You're not going to make me feel guilty by pointing out that the group of users to whom I freely give my time and assistance doesn't include you. I'm interested in vote tallies to the extent that they give an indication of the needs of Wikipedians.
If many people feel as strongly as you, then perhaps there is scope for a wiki "bounties" page where people can offer to pay for development? Seems that hard physical "beer tokens" are a better form of vote than electronic ones anyway...
Ed