Improvement needed on Feature Request thread
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@hadden89 said in Improvement needed on Feature Request thread:
Actually I think mods can merge posts and sum the upvotes.
That would be nice, but no. We can't.
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~400 feature requests in a week (which seems to be a lot) and the top rated has 38 votes only. o_O It seems that users like to send new requests instead of voting. To be frank, 1.14 got ~480 in the same amount of time, so the new way of handling requests is not as bad as it seems to be. I think grouping the requests by tags could be a way to "give" votes to more posts (as I said earlier and Pesala started to do).
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@bimlas I don't think so. It's simply harder to vote, because you have to open each and every topic. People used to just semi-randomly upvote anything which struck a chord and they put their eyes on in feature request threads. Now that effort is involved they only do it, if they really care. You could call that an improvement.
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@pesala I've just tried, and I can't seem to use tagging in the feature requests thread. I can use it elsewhere, so I'm guessing that it's disabled there to protect the "pipeline" and "complete" special tags.
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@lonm Yes, it seem that only Moderators can use it now.
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@Ayespy, @Gwen-Dragon: I just noticed that tags can be added to any thread (as a regular user) except the Feature Requests. What does the dev team says? Allowing users to add (predefined) tags to threads is in plan?
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Make clear with mod reply that (most) dupes will be deleted after few days to encourage upvote original post
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@pesala
I know, but often help pages aren't read and as a reply is written almost on any dupe, why don't remember that not to lose feedback/upvotes done in the meantime?
(As votes couldn't be merged)
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@Pesala I just noticed that all of the feature requests are tagged. It was your own "mission" or more admins got the idea about grouping requests? Will the users able to add the tags too?
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@gwen-dragon Yes, I know, my question is about the future. If tags are already used to group feature requests, then the admins "has" to add tags which is time consuming, thus I think that adding ability to the users to choose from a predefined list of tags would be good (this is what I'm talking about since one and a half weeks).
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@bimlas said in Improvement needed on Feature Request thread:
the admins "has" to add tags which is time consuming
Moderators can do this. The Tags are in a bit of a mess already, with lots of them not used, or used only once. If the moderators do it, they will be used more consistently and listing threads by their tags will be more useful.
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I notice that in the mobile view you can see the tag editing field, but you can't use it on new feature request topics. It should probably be hidden in that case.
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We've just reorganised everything with separate categories for different products and you can pick by tag. We're also cleaning up old requests.
Unfortunately there's still no way for us to "merge" upvotes from duped requests.
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