Comment 8 for bug 149775

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 14:53 +0000, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> The "embarassing" tag now in use is great, I think the second bug with
> it deserves its tag well, too (language pack problem). We just need to
> take care that if someone adds the tag just to get attention, tags are
> removed sometimes too.
>
> The other ideas are also nice, currently the only "vote" thing is the
> number of duplicate bugs...
>

The tags are fine, but as you pointed out, the tags might be misused.
Tagging will only be immune to misuse, if it is combined with a
voting/weighting system. The feature MUST NOT require any moderation by
a SUPERUSER as this process should be solely user driven.

Also as mentioned earlier, opening an extra bug report just for voting
defeats the purpose of the idea. The idea is to make it dead-simple for
users to express how embarrassing they find a bug.

HOW is the keyword here. I propose to implement this just like you rate
a video on youtube, just that you don't set how good you find the thing,
but how embarrassing.

Such a voting system could also be used for other attributes, I just
can't think of any that would make sense from the top of my head. Maybe
it could be used in other parts of LP. I could imagine voting on
blueprints or bugs that are actually feature requests like this one!