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Bug 182544

Summary: The gauge for voting is too hard to find
Product: Community Reporter: Martin Oberhuber <mober.at+eclipse>
Component: EclipseLIVEAssignee: EclipseLive Inbox <eclipselive-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
URL: http://live.eclipse.org/node/229
Whiteboard:

Description Martin Oberhuber CLA 2007-04-16 09:02:48 EDT 
The gauge of 5 stars for voting a presentation (once logged in) is too hard to find. I found it just accidentally when I hovered over it.

A traditional style UI, for instance with radio buttons and below the main content description, would be much easier to find and thus encourage more people to actually vote.
Comment 1 Nathan Gervais CLA 2007-04-16 10:30:25 EDT 
I actually find the rating system to be quite slick, if you can gather more support to make a change for this i'll look into it but for now closing as wont fix.
Comment 2 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2007-04-16 14:39:32 EDT 
Just taking the 3 most popular webinars:

Title         Li                                 Views  Votes
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RCP1          http://live.eclipse.org/node/204     464     3
RCP2          http://live.eclipse.org/node/213     379     1
Data Binding  http://live.eclipse.org/node/208     265     1

less than 1% of the people who viewed the page gave a vote. For me, this is an indication that it is either not obvious enough how to vote, or it is not being promoted enough. 
I agree that the gadget with the stars really looks slick. And I find it cool that it remembers the vote I gave last time, and that it only allows one vote per login. But IMHO the purpose of a voting system is to gather some feedback which should be accurate. And at an absolute number of 1-3 votes it cannot be accurate but is an almost random gadget.

Are there other means of directing people's attention to the voting system?
Comment 3 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2007-04-16 14:41:38 EDT 
BTW, currently a single vote of "awful" results in a star and thus looks better in the summary than a webinar that was not voted for at all.
Comment 4 Ian Skerrett CLA 2007-04-16 14:42:07 EDT 
> 
> Are there other means of directing people's attention to the voting system?
> 

I agree we need to make it more obvious that 1) you need to login and 2) you need to click on a star to record your vote.