On Wednesday 01 June 2011 19:33:29 todd rme wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Monday, May 30, 2011 01:06:07 you wrote: > >> * Voting: Only allow if every user has just one vote per bug or use a > >> different system > > > > voting is useless. no matter the system, it is too easy to skew the results > > by > > "promoting" your pet bug on dot.kde.org, planetkde.org, forums.kde.org, irc > > ... all places we see that happening. > > > > "votes" in the form of duplicate reports is usually far more telling, ime. > > This seems to be encouraging users to post duplicates whenever > possible. Aren't we trying to avoid duplicates? > > Your approach means that if someone is trying to be a good community > member and searching diligently for other similar bugs before posting > theirs, they are actually discouraging the fixing of their bug. They > would be more likely to get their bug fixed if they intentionally made > a duplicate. > > I would think telling users that duplicates are the best way to get > their bug fixed would just lead to people asking others to duplicate > their pet bug rather than vote for it, so the same problem would exist > but the damage to bko would be far worse. Yes possible, but that could easily be recognized (the same way as we notice that people are asked for voting) and I would say that it would be totally fine to block the accounts of whoever asks for reporting duplicates.
For me currently also the duplicates are a better indication than votes, but I don't tell the users. In the end each developer probably has a different metric to decide which bugs are important. Users cannot know all of them.
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