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Voting down against feature creep
Many users like simple apps and I wonder, if it'd make sense to add down voting.
Currently, if something doesn't get as many votes it's perhaps a less prioritized feature. But there's no way for users to express their concern that this adds too much complexity etc. Over time an unpopular feature still may collect enough votes by a minority of users even if the majority of the users would be strongly against it.
This would be a mechanism against feature creep.
Maybe it's better to use separate counts then to differentiate +10 -10 votes too see a controversial feature vs a 0 votes summed count (looks like nobody cares).
What do you think?
I would personally not like to have this in my feature view, but I can imagine others think differently about this. We could always add it as an opt-in feature! Feel free to open a PR if you will 🙂
I'm curious about your reasons or what makes you concerned, if you don't mind sharing. It's good to get another perspective.
I prefer to have the votes represent an absolute number of users instead of an outcome calculation of minus and plus. If at all, I'd prefer to have upvotes and downvotes separated visible as a middle ground. Does that make sense?
I'd also have that separate. Just like YouTube has a likes count and dislikes count. Because a very controversial feature could just end up with something close to 0 then. It's better to keep it distinct. I agree on that.