Open Rich-Harris opened 10 years ago
Rich-Harris
commented
10 years ago Email response from GH:
Hi Rich,
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll certainly pass it along to the team. I can't promise if/when we might implement polls, however your feedback has definitely been recorded.
Let us know if you have any other questions!
Cheers, Jamie
cirosantilli
commented
10 years ago Comment upvotes would be a half solution for this, but would also help other use case, and simpler to implement: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/209 , the downside is that it does not allow parallel conversation.
Another more versatile possibility: voted comment trees like Discuss or Redit, which also allow some parallel conversation: etiquette fix top level comments to be answers, and discuss below.
dobkeratops
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9 years ago I would really like up votes for Comments and Issues. An option to sort issues by votes would achieve some of what polling could.
When I emailed them , I was told "we prefer real participation" - but, on the contrary, IMO it would keep the quality of participation higher.
If I'm the maintainer of a project, and I want to solicit feedback on a feature idea or API change or whatever, GitHub issues are a good way to start the discussion. But after a while the thread often becomes unwieldy and off-topic, and it's hard to figure out what the community actually wants, and given the fact that '+1' is often frowned upon, you only get feedback from people who feel comfortable formulating an argument and putting their head above the parapet.
Polls would be a great way to solve this problem - if, within a comment, I could create a list of options that contributors could select from, we'd be able to form a much clearer picture of which decision the community favoured, and it wouldn't prevent the discussion from taking place alongside it. (I'd probably suggest that votes should be public.)