Abstention - Do Loomio voting options foster participation ?
Fabio Balli
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Today, a proposition may be read by 50 people, but only 20 vote. What if the other 30 were made visible ? Would that not increase the sense of belonging in the community, acknowledging the commitment of both the proposer and the readers of the proposal ?
The "orange light" resulting of "abstain" is not representative of very different voting intentions (undecided, not caring, blank cheque, no legitimacy, etc.). Comments, while helpful, do not impact the interpretation of the charts.
To solve this, I propose to 1) change the orange icon title to "undecided", and 2) create a white icon "abstain".
Colin England
Wed 4 Nov 2015 1:34AM
Looks good.
Matthew Bartlett
Wed 4 Nov 2015 5:44PM
Viewing a thread feels too light-weight and ambiguous an action to be concretely represented in the pie chart
Greg Cassel
Wed 4 Nov 2015 6:16PM
I really like this general train of thought, but I don't think we're 'there yet'. IMO Matthew said it perfectly: views feel too lightweight and ambiguous for direct representation in the pies.
zack
Thu 5 Nov 2015 8:15PM
I vote for this proposal because this kind of change is needed in my view. but I would change it to people who commented not just looked
Joop Kiefte (LaPingvino)
Thu 5 Nov 2015 9:01PM
Much more in line with what we really want to see :).
Damon Meledones
Fri 6 Nov 2015 2:49AM
At a minimum this needs to be an option, not default behavior.
Paul Fenwick
Fri 6 Nov 2015 3:28AM
Weak disagree. I concur with the position that viewing is too weak an action to be meaningful. I'll open lots of tabs (I have 196 open right now), but that doesn't mean I've read any of them.
Danyl Strype
Fri 6 Nov 2015 5:09AM
Like Zack, I would agree if the proposal was based on comments, not views.
Mathijs de Bruin
Fri 6 Nov 2015 8:14AM
The idea that viewing a resource contributes a change violates the expectations (and RFC's) concerning HTTP and web applications.
GB
Fri 6 Nov 2015 8:24AM
agree with Matthew and Zack