Voting - Ticket System

[boecko]

Hi,

i've switched on the sponsorship-mechanism of mantis and modified it a bit:
* money -> votes
* you can give a ticket votes from 1-10

Benefit?
BIS would see, which tickets are troubling most of the users or which features should be implemented.
This doesn't affect priorities.

Feel free to comment. Bye

Edit:Voting is online .. no need for testing

[Kronzky]

Perhaps I should get some glasses, but where do I actually place my vote? I couldn't find a voting button anywhere on the form...

And how many votes do I have, and what happens when I run out of them?

Update:In case anybody else might run into this issue, and you're running Firefox, check your userContent.css.
Most likely you're having an ad suppression definition in there that is looking for a layer called "sponsor". Remove that and you're all set.

[boecko]

Perhaps I should get some glasses, but where do I actually place my vote? I couldn't find a voting button anywhere on the form...

And how many votes do I have, and what happens when I run out of them?

Click on the link:
http://bugs.armed-assault.net/view.php?id=1623


There must be the text "Users voting for this issue" in english.

[Suma]

BIS would see, which tickets are troubling most of the users or which features should be implemented.
This doesn't affect priorities.

I like this a lot. Such feedback is very important for us. I will be using the view sorted by the number of votes a lot.

[INNOCENT&CLUELESS]

a dream becomes true! The restriction is so that each mantis user can only give one vote, and you can even change it if you changed you mind. Excellent! Stupid Question: 10 equals highest support?

[boecko]

a dream becomes true! The restriction is so that each mantis user can only give one vote, and you can even change it if you changed you mind. Excellent! Stupid Question: 10 equals highest support?

More votes, more support.
but I would make lower range ...
e.g.
1-5

regards

[Monkwarrior]

I like this a lot. Such feedback is very important for us. I will be using the view sorted by the number of votes a lot.

Allrighty, that's all we needed to hear.
Let's all vote now gents.

Monk.

[boecko]

Ok .. ladies and gentlemen ..

Voting is online ...
you can give 0-5 votes to each bug/issue

If you see some problem, report it in the 'mantis bts'-project and vote for it.

Side effect: I disabled all languages besides english. I don't want to translate into polish, russian or czech .

[MessiahUA]

Very good feature, I should say... Now everyone can show how important is the issue for them

Quote[/b] ]Side effect: I disabled all languages besides english. I don't want to translate into polish, russian or czech .

If there are not much strings to translate, then I can help with russian

[sbsmac]

I like the concept but I'm not convinced that allowing a range of values for each user (1..5) is terribly useful. As I understand the system at the moment, users can vote for as many issues as they like. There's therefore no incentive not to add 5 votes for every issue a user is interested in.

I'd suggest that there is just as much information about user interest available to BIS if you allow users to only post one vote for each issue and continue to allow them to post votes for an arbitrary number of issues. Even this suffers from the flaw that users are not really being asked to express a preference since they can say they are interested in everything.

Presumably the original 'money' concept allowed users to 'spend' a limited number of votes across some arbitrary collection of issues. My own opinion is that this is more complicated than it really needs to be. I suspect most forum users here rarely visit the BTS and certainly aren't going to want to juggle their virtual bank-balance when they do.

The simplest solution would be just to allow users to choose their top 5 or 10 open issues so that at any time BIS could see the '10 most wanted bug-fixes/features'. OTOH, I appreciate that Mantis probably doesn't support a straight-forward concept!