Bill Baxter wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Brad Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Frits van Bommel wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Brad Roberts wrote:
Ok, enabled for the D product. Each registered user has 10 votes and
can vote only once per bug.
What is the motivation behind limiting the total number of votes a user
may have? I think that may blunt the statistics a bit.
Presumably it's to force you to only vote for the ones you consider most
important.
This way you may not be able to vote for every issue you ever ran into and
instead have to pick the ones that bug you most (no pun intended). In
theory, this could lead to more meaningful results, especially as time
passes.
Hmmm... If a user has unlimited votes they can't manipulate the system. Say
they vote 1 for every single bug. That simply means an additional bias is in
the system, which does not influence the ranking.
So the limit of 10 is really an arbitrary cap on the number of bugs a given
person can consider important.
As time passes, this only gets worse. Say I "consumed" my 10 votes. Then I
find a showstopper for my code. Well I need to decide which of the other bugs
I don't "care" for anymore. Why do I need to make that decision?
Don't introduce arbitrary aperture windows in the system. Let the statistics
do its work.
Andrei
Do you have more than 10 you want to vote for? It's not a cap on how many
are important. It's a cap on how many you can suggest are the ones that
time should most urgently be spent on.
Anyway, like I said, I'll change it if there's sufficient interest and so
far there clearly hasn't been. :)
I like the limit of 10 better than not having a limit. I'd like it
even more if I could cast multiple votes for a single issue. (For
instance, The StackOverflow UserVoice site's voting system lets you
cast up to 3 of your votes for a particular issue.)
Upon more thinking, I feel it is interesting to start with a capped
number of votes. And yes, I agree the freedom of "concentrating" one's
capital on certain bugs should help.
Andrei
