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[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 06:52:12PM +0000, Brad Anderson wrote:
> I'd just like to point out for everyone in this conversation that
> you can vote for issues in bugzilla. The vote tally is a much easier
> way for the people who work on the compiler to quantify what the
> community wants from D.

On that note, could we pretty please remove the restriction of 10 votes
per person? It makes it less useful because I keep having to think twice
about whether to vote or not, how many votes I have left, and whether
the current bug is more important than another so that I can transfer
the vote over, etc.. In the end, I just don't bother voting at all.

So, can we please remove that restriction? I don't know if it was
introduced to prevent abuse, but as I see it, unless someone is out to
game the system (in which case we have bigger problems than just wrong
tally counts), it's not necessary to try to prevent abuse because a
single user can vote for the same bug only once. So it's not like you
can easily inflate the votes anyway.


> I don't know how much the major compiler devs use the votes for
> making decisions but at least it'd less ephemeral than these forum
> posts that will be gone and forgotten in a day or two.
> 
> Here's the issue list sorted by votes:
> 
> https://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&query_format=advanced&votes=1&order=votes

I think this list will be much more meaningful if the voting restriction
was removed.


T

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If the comments and the code disagree, it's likely that *both* are wrong. -- Christopher