On 15 February 2012 23:09, Laura Czajkowski <laura.czajkow...@canonical.com> wrote: > Aloha, > > I came across a question today on launchpad Questions that I thought would > get a better discussion on here first before I or anyone else replies to it. > The question is could like/dislike buttons be added on bugs which would > would encourage more interaction and also like many other sites nowadays > have a +1 to comments > https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/187822
Aloha, Here was a previous discussion: https://lists.launchpad.net/launchpad-dev/msg08536.html In my view there are a few different related things people refer to as "+1", or which +1-like buttons are used for on other sites 0- "Voting" for a particular bug to be fixed. I think affectsmetoo does pretty well on this but the details could be improved: better ui hints to use it, perhaps showing distinct trends on this, perhaps using it more to hint dupe finders. 1- Encouraging/enabling people to share links to the site into social networks, so that more people learn about Launchpad and about the projects hosted on Launchpad. By definition this isn't something that can be done selfcontained within Launchpad itself - we need to share to g+, twitter, fb, whatever. Especially for g+, this also gives hints to Google to help them improve search results. The naive way of doing this runs slap into Launchpad's policy against running 3rd-party js. We could try adding 'share' buttons in a way that does not run thirdparty js, or in a way that runs only a cached verified copy. To some extent users who care about this can share things with no help from Launchpad, but helping increases the effect. There are other things we can do to help such as adding microformats/metadata. 2- "Thanks" to people who fix things or contribute something useful (maybe also for projects, ppas, etc). Hopefully this makes people feel their contributions are more worthwhile and it's more likely they'll do more. 3- Surfacing the most useful comments in large pages. 4- Avoiding low-content "me too", "I agree" or "thanks" posts by giving people another outlet to express this. 5- Identifying important (often upvoted) or "high standing" users. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
