On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:20 PM, S Page spage@wikimedia.org wrote:
(There is My preferences > Appearance > check "Exclude me from feature experiments"; though it's probable some artifacts will leak out, as happened for a few weeks in the bug he references.)
As the person who implemented that preference, I can tell you that the
reason we did so was because the lab rats indeed did revolt.
Experimenting on users - perhaps it is loaded, what I take from it though is the way we tend to not do enough testing or evaluation as to whether a change actually accomplishes it's objective before unleashing it on our users. There are many cases where this has failed, and in each of those cases we have lost the trust of our users.
- Trevor