Falacy's Site - Voting for Features

Voting for Features in Feature Requests

ID:199957

Jan 25 2012, 8:55 pm

Falacy

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You seem to have lost an important part of the feature tracker in this conversion to a massive forum: Being able to vote up desirable features.

#1 Jan 25 2012, 9:51 pm
Flame Sage	I think that system wasn't really being used much. I find that the number of comments would probably be a good representation on how popular a requested feature is?

#2 Jan 25 2012, 9:52 pm
Falacy	Seemed to be working for the most part. There were several things that they had been ignoring for years, but implemented after they became the top voted requests. I would like to have voting available on my hub feature requests. So I can see what nooblies care about the most.

#3 Jan 25 2012, 9:55 pm
Flame Sage	Perhaps they could reuse their votes system on the other forum categories? Where you would +1 a topic (instead of a post)?

#4 Jan 25 2012, 10:06 pm
Tom	We could bring that back. It used to be a members-only vote but that wouldn't make as much sense for hub forums so it'd probably be a general overall vote, hoping people don't game the system (similar to the q&a stuff).

#5 Jan 25 2012, 10:07 pm
Flame Sage	How am I gaming the system Tom? :(

#6 Jan 25 2012, 10:09 pm
Tom	I mean someone making a bunch of fake keys to try to generate votes (or vote up a feature in this case).

#7 Jan 25 2012, 10:09 pm
Falacy	Can't you just restrict it by ID and/or IP?

#8 Jan 25 2012, 10:13 pm

Tom

There are plenty of things we could do, but it adds more complexity so if we can get away with a simple system, the better. On our own forums, it's pretty easy to eyeball if someone is artificially inflating tallies (and I don't really see what the point would be) and we will just ban them, but if we carry it over to hub forums that wouldn't be an option, so we'd either have to trust the users or implement ip-storage with the system. So one reason we don't immediately generalize our features is because it's just easier for us, at least to start.

#9 Jan 25 2012, 10:27 pm
Ocean King	Don't you need to be member to vote on a feature request? (If someone creates new account with membership just to vote on a feature <.<)

#10 Jan 25 2012, 10:27 pm
Flame Sage	There are no feature request vote features as of yet.

#11 Jan 25 2012, 10:28 pm
Falacy	Meh, just leave it as a member only feature

#12 Jan 25 2012, 10:34 pm In response to Flame Sage (#10)
Ocean King	Flame Sage wrote: There are no feature request vote features as of yet. There was a voting system in old Tracker, but seems it dissapeared.