[mb-users] Last minutes votes

[Mike Morrison]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Johannes Dewender wrote:
>> 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

Agreed. I am probably biased to think it's inexperienced voters because of 
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8355054
(for which I feel I did provide adequate evidence).

I should have said "It often seems to be inexperienced voters who cast the 
last-minute 'no's with no edit note". As has been pointed out, even a note 
after the edit has failed would be preferable to no note at all.

I agree that having an extension of time after the first no-vote would be 
helpful.

Mike