[mb-users] Last minutes votes

[Mike Morrison]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Aaron Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Florent Jochaud <fjochaud at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  Just get an edit rejected for a no vote 5 mins before expiration...
>>  http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8578160
>>
>>  I don't want to cry here cause my edit was rejected but simply this last
>>  minute vote without comment is bugging me. I wonder if there would be a
>>  solution to avoid losing edit cause of that (although i don't know if
>>  this is common and maybe my edit was wrong)
>>
>>  - force user to enter a comment for a 'no' vote at least if this is the
>>  first no (but i know voters are a rare resource that shouldn't be
>>  discouraged too much... so this one might be a wrong idea)
>>
>>  - delay the expiration by putting a minimum delay after first no/yes
>>  vote (the one which change the default depending on the quality level)
>>  to let the editor react to this vote or get some clarification. at least
>>  a few days... cause in this case i read the mail after the edit was
>>  rejected.
>>
>>  So what do you think? Is this problem a common one? can something be
>>  done to avoid losing edit?
>
> This is annoying and we really should extend the voting window for an
> edit that receives a No vote to allow the editor to respond.
>
> -Aaron

Agreed. It often seems to be inexperienced voters who cast the last-minute 
"no"s. One contributing factor may be that when they click "Vote on edits" 
the first page is usually soon-to-expire edits or even just-expired edits. 
The newbies might not be noticing the expiration times.

Mike