[mb-style] RFC: Change Default Data Quality

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/6/30, Brian Schweitzer <brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com>:
>
> Just because someone has the physical media in hand, it means nothing
> about the correctness of the data they're providing.  That newbie who
> verifies his or her own add edit, sure, they've copied the info from  what
> they have.  But that doesn't mean it still doesn't have typos, style issues,
> whatever.  The "Verified" or "Unverified" indicates what voting is intended
> to represent - multiple eyes checking something for correctness, not just
> "looks rightness".  To me, we lose that if we just use "Voted" and
> "Unvoted".
>

In an ideal world, or rather in an ideal MusicBrainz, I would agree with
you, Brian. But we aren't factually sure every yes vote means the voter did
a really close inspection. "We should assume so" ? I am not so sure. I tend
to take things at their most primary level: 4 yes votes means 4 users
clicked on the yes button. Everything else is guesswork. They might as well
have clicked yes
- because the release SEEMED ok (they didn't bother to check),
- because they didn't see any reason to vote no (including they thought they
did a close inspection, but they did not really know what to look at),
- because they'd rather click yes than no because clicking no means
explaining why you did so and they don't want to bother with that,
- because they liked the original editor or felt in some way indebted to him

- because they believed it helped their karma
- ...


My answer to the hypothetical question above, "newbies might ask why they
> can't set their new releases to verified" (I'm assuming you meant that, not
> "to Voted") would be something like "Because, although you may have the CD
> in hand, it never hurts to have another few sets of eyes double-checking the
> data.  By the way, please remember to use Guess Case."
>

Yes, I agree that may be a good answer. But still I prefer Unvoted to
Unverified. That said, this is only a problem of words, it doesn't have any
consequence on the factual meaning of the new status. We can choose one
formulation and if we discover it is wrong, change it later.


-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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