[mb-users] Last minutes votes

[Florent Jochaud]

Mike Morrison wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Exactly what i thought in this case (and i think i did this mistake
myself when i was a newby) cause he also voted yes for the asin
relationship to this album... (are yes and no too close to each other?)

Florent