Comment 224 for bug 332945

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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote : a proposal for a quick survey

Il giorno lun, 20/04/2009 alle 14.28 +0000, Jordan Mantha ha scritto:
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>
> Regarding Alan's "vocal minority" statement. While he was perhaps a
> bit
> to concise for a heated topic, he has a fairly good point. We can't
> take
> this bug report (19 dups and 221 comments now) as solid proof that the
> majority of users don't like the changes. The big reason is that only
> people who don't like the change are going to file a bug about it so
> we're specifically collecting the "no" votes without really any
> collection of the "yes" votes. That makes things like this bug report
> not very useful for knowing just how many people are in favor of the
> new
> system. Statistically, 221 "no" votes is a distinct minority of users
> and so the claim that "a feature everybody dislikes" is probably not
> very valid. That is not to say however, that all the "no" votes are
> irrelevant or not considerable.
>

In the new notification dialog, why not putting a link saying "this
dialog is new, do you like it? Tell us your opinion", pointing to a
quick survey?

Vincenzo

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