[mb-users] Last minutes votes

[Johannes Dewender]

> 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.

Why should that be unexperienced voters and not noting the expiration 
times? If you look at the editlist and you see something that shouldn't 
be there, you vote no. I wouldn't say "well, this is so wrong, but it 
nearly passed. So I should let it pass". But I would also prefer if 
that no-vote extended also the time to expire.

Having no-votes without a reason is a different topic though. Even if 
the edit failed, you still need the information what could be the 
problem.
But I also want to mention, if you don't state any source or reason in 
your edit (if it is not an obvious one) and then get a no-vote in the 
end, then this might be a reason. On the other hand: you should be very 
careful about voting against edits that took a lot of time and that 
can't be redone without much effort. (like adding releases)

Anyways, we don't have enough people voting so we could watch all edits 
early on and give the right hints at the start of the voting. If nobody 
subscribed to your artists, then it is basically luck that decides if 
you get your edit through if you don't make your intentions clear 
without beeing asked for it.

--JonnyJD
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