Loomio
Wed 20 Feb 2013 11:09PM

Temperature checks

NW Nicolas Wormser Public Seen by 59

I just had the need for this today. For now we can only use proposals, but I think at some point it might be useful to differentiate between formal proposals and temperature checks.

One might want to do a temperature check to see on how people feel about a proposition/an idea before a formal proposal is made.

The main difference with a proposal would be that a temperature check would have no outcome and you would not be expected to justify your choice. Also I think the 4 buttons would be replaced with a scale from -2 (very bad idea / I refuse to do it etc…) to +2 (sounds awesome / looking forward to it / count me in etc…). We could also use colours, emoticons etc…
It would be very similar to a poll tool, but I think it is important that the tool permits people to show dissent to what's being proposed (a classic poll tool doesn't necessary allow to do this).

I've added that feature to the Loomio functional overview (that will be migrated to Trello at some point)

MB

Matthew Bartlett Thu 28 Feb 2013 8:53PM

@aaronthornton Mind posting a link to that? Couldn't find a search function in balsamiq.

Maybe temperature checks & ideas/suggestions are both candidates for future plugins?

AT

Aaron Thornton Tue 5 Mar 2013 6:45PM

@matthewbartlett https://loomio.mybalsamiq.com/projects/ideas/grid
Great idea a plugin feature of this nature would work once we improve our main app interface and apis more. Although I think we are going to need a built in temperature check as a self moderating facilitation tool.

MB

Matthew Bartlett Tue 5 Mar 2013 7:17PM

@aaronthornton Alack I don't seem to have access to that particular mockup.

JL

Jon Lemmon Wed 6 Mar 2013 9:41PM

@matthewbartlett you should now

JV

Joshua Vial Fri 8 Mar 2013 6:51AM

I think the idea of temperature check and a sliding scale from red, orange, yellow, green where you choose a colour and write a comment would be perfect.

I think it would be better to have this always available though as a mood gauge where people can answer the question about 'how are you feeling about this discussion'. As more people vote the colours would get brighter and as they atrophy over time the colours would fade (css transparency filter or something).

That way it feels more living and less static than a vote and would provide a place where people could post meta level comments which you can see when you hover over the mood chart.

RDB

Richard D. Bartlett Fri 8 Mar 2013 8:03AM

We've been talking about doing a pretty serious overhaul of the UI. As part of this I think it could be a good idea to include some designated space for experimental ideas that we can deploy in specific groups. Possibly not true 'plugins' per-se, but proto-plugins. Decaying colored mood sliders for instance, or my XY scatter plot (agree <=> disagree vs care <=> don't care).

It would be nice to have a place for developers to play with ideas.

JD

Josef Davies-Coates Mon 8 Jul 2013 10:33AM

I'd realliy like to see this feature too. In some cases I really want to be able to do dotmocracy-style proposal/ idea brainstorming before making a formal proposal.