Ozbargain should allow multiple options to be selectable. It's called approval voting and is the best and easiest and quickest way to vote for certain things.
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OzBargain Polls Should Allow Multiple Selectable Options - Approval Voting
brisdaz on 01/11/2022 - 23:51
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Last edited 01/11/2022 - 23:52
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I'm not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand I want to vote yes to your proposed change as it could give more insight but on the other hand I want to vote no to your proposal as it could give less insight.
How can I vote both yes and no?
- Suggested Bikes
Bikies
- Suggested Meh.
Meh. Just don't vote.
In certain circumstances it's useful.
Should be an optional feature when making a poll post, just like suggestions.
Suggested yah nahmaybe i dont know
Can you repeat the question?
- OzBargainers
- I want all the features under the sun…
- Me
- Can't you just work around with whatever feature that has already been provided?
The reality would be somewhere in between, but consider the size of my team, time & budget — I'll say "maybe, some day in the future, maybe…"
Btw, using "Suggestion" for a poll like this is definitely not what it was intended for. When implementing a feature we have always had to think about whether the new feature can be abused or misused, which basically just add more development time (or sometimes don't get developed at all).
Do you currently have any feature suggestions and/or voting tools?
Ok I'm aware of that.
I guess is it a core feature that is best to have in the core software as others also have it. There are other standalone web services such as doodle, pollunit and google forms which have this option but I'm not sure of the uptake of external services as every extra click or outside service there is friction due to different policies and unfamiliarity.
It would be awesome/amusing (can't decide which) to treat suggestions for a new feature with the same rigor that something in a mature workplace would require.
For example, a detailed business case including a risk assessment to give you and the team a full picture of the justification for the change, effort involved in implementing and any potential issues.
If nothing else, it would act as a gateway to most suggestions because it would require a bit of effort on behalf of the people making the suggestions. I'm not one for stifling innovation, but there also needs to be a good balance of quantity vs quality.
That is the point of having good community software for emergent organisation with diverse input. It requires though someone to translate, summarise and collate or be a good moderator.
requires though someone to translate, summarise and collate
Which in turn, requires effort by someone, which in all likelihood will cost money.
Where is the detailed business case to justify doing this, including an analysis of the effort involved and risk assessment to identify potential issues? :P
@Domingo: Some (to be fair maybe only a few) open source projects are entirely volunteer based. Also remuneration doesn't have to be monetary. Some people like paying it forward or being part of a greater goal.
Suggested The problems are “the” questions not the “range” of questionsWe need to get over biased poll questions before we can get on to this method… The issue is poll answers that are wrong or biased to OP agenda where it’s a choice of not voting or voting with the wrong, but least wrong selection.
It’s not that we need more choice, it’s that the choices need to be clearer, better defined and less “biased”
IQ test before being allowed to post could solve that. Would also reduce the size of the penalty box.
I like your optimism! High IQ doesn't mean good intentions or altruism though.
High IQ smarty pants are more likely to rig the poll options
not ok