perhaps these awards are an incentive to spamming feedback

Started by spmm

spmm Lv 1

Junior Consultant
Provided 1 feature/suggestion feedback that was implemented by the Foldit team
Veteran Consultant
Provided 3 feature/suggestion feedbacks that were implemented by the Foldit team
Master Consultant
Provided 8 feature/suggestion feedbacks that were implemented by the Foldit team

At the very least they should mention that the suggestion needs to be ORIGINAL

auntdeen Lv 1

And perhaps they need to be limited to a certain number per day (only features/suggestions, not bugs etc). There is no reason to enable someone to fill up the entire front page of feedback with "suggestions".

jeff101 Lv 1

I read it. I also sorted my topics as Rav suggested and used priority 3 as he suggested. Be glad I didn't post camtasia files with each suggestion! Weren't you all new to this game at some point?

Rav3n_pl Lv 1

Feedback list cleaned a bit…
There is BIG nice SEARCH box…
Yes, limit to 2 new feedbacks per day by one user should be enough for everyone.

fairstar Lv 1

Yes.
I have never felt a need to spam the feedback page.
Instead, I learnt the game and read the feedback section, the blog and the wiki.
I then found that I didn't need to instigate 20 or so feedbacks, as my questions and thoughts were answered.

infjamc Lv 1

Here are my thoughts on the issue:

  1. Personally, I don't think the consultant achievements are a major incentive. After all, few people actually notice them. Plus, they have to be recorded manually. Take myself for example: I happen to be officially credited with only 1 feature/suggestion. However, if I really wanted to, I could theoretically link the cut point feature and the 2-point evolution to old posts from 2009 and associate the "tracks" feature with my detailed description in http://fold.it/portal/node/989662 ).

  2. While I do agree that jeff101 definitely made too many feedback posts, they at least look like the kind of posts that an enthusiastic new player would make. If anything, that fact that those posts exist shows that he actually cared enough about the project to talk about how things could be improved. In other words: it's the classic case of "F for the result, but A for the effort."

  3. I don't think limiting the number of suggestion/feature posts that one could post in a day would help much. After all, someone who really wants to spam could simply use another tag. An option to consider would be applying such a rule only to players who have recorded fewer than an arbitrary number of moves (say 10000), though. Alternatively, the up-votes and down-votes associated with a user's posts could be directly linked to the account in such a way that the restriction would only apply to those who have a sufficiently negative balance.

  4. Yet another idea is to have feedback posts hide automatically when they reach the -10 mark.

xiando Lv 1

I find myself in nearly complete agreement with infjamc

Perhaps another idea might be to place a text blurb ( a codesil, qualifier, etc.) in feedback that asks contributors to consolidate multiple requests to singular posts when possible, to minimize what you call "spam".

Coded properly, it could display upon opening a new post or upon selection of one of the posting criteria (bug, idea, etc.) to minimize it's footprint in the main feedback page. The required code is relatively inconsequential, so it's not like it would be a difficult piece of webwork. a snippet of html and a snippet of javascript is all that's needed.

I'm not aware of how many the person cited above posted or didn't, but arbitrarily limiting people to two posts seems to be a case of shooting oneself in the foot, as it may dissuade otherwise friendly people from participating. Some folks are, as infjamc said…enthusiastic. it's a symptom of a certain personality type, and if I were you, if they have authentic sensibility to their posts and posits, I wouldn't do anything to dissuade them.

Here is where I diverge. I've said it before in the way way back, and I'll say it again. Science is not democratic. Sound scientific ideas should not be subject to the whims of political gamesmanship, but voting is. I would judge as suggestion based on its merits to forward the program's stability, speed, tooling, Adult UI, etc, not on what often in social communities falls back to a political vote.

Anyway, that's my two unrequested cents, like it or leave it. ciao

brow42 Lv 1

I think the web page needs right next to the Submit Feedback link, a big blurb that says "Search Here First! ->" and also a smaller blurb saying Ipads, 3D, Kinect, and Recipe Pausing have already been suggested.