Votes at bugs.kde.org should always be boolean

[rokejulianlockhart]

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bugs.kde.org/page.cgi?id=voting/user.html&bug_id=470999#vote_470999

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which demonstrates that votes currently are added to bugs by users inputting how many votes they want to add to a bug (within the per-user category-defined vote limits).

@rokejulianlockhart

As far as I can tell, voting on bugs is a placebo for users, to make them feel like they have an effect on development prioritization, but this isn’t the case; nobody looks at votes them to prioritize work. For this reason, many Bugzilla products have disabled voting. The ones that haven’t probably didn’t realize they could. If there’s any change to be made here, it would be to globally disable voting, to avoid giving people the wrong impressions.

If they’re not used, certainly do disable them so that the users know this.

@Duha

Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought you have increased the importance of some bugs in the past? Was it not because of the voting but the amount reports? Or the amount of People subscribing to the bug?

but otherwise, I think that they’re a great asset.

Although it has been stated that votes are not used, I have seen comments on bugs and anecdotes here which contradict that. Consequently, I believe that being able to provide more than one vote per user per bug provides an unfair importance advantage to certain bugs.

I expect that part of the reason for Strange category bug vote limits at bugs.kde.org occurring was to combat this.

bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=voting/user.html&bug_id=470999#vote_470999 has solved this by making all votes boolean

I believe that https://bugs.kde.org should do the same, and some (very few) categories have

but not all.