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Should fixes have impacts, difficulties, etc?
Steven Skoczen
Jan. 9, 2009
From sam's bug report:
bug #150!Initial report by Sam:
It would be nice to be able to assign an impact to a fix that you have no intention of writing a guide for. An example being my save the right whales fix.
(Although I suppose this could get abused)
Jan 9, '09 9:30pmSteven Skoczen
Yeah, I'm not really sure why fixes don't have impacts.
I guess my two, erm three questions are:
1) What does this help you do / how does it improve the site? (aka why would it be nice)
2) Are there any concerns about abuse? (since it's just one fix, probably not as much)
3) Are there other fields that folks think should come from guides? (difficulty, etc)
Jan 9, '09 9:39pmSam Fladung
I feel that it gives a way of indicating the value of the fix. Since only fixes really have impact, not guides. (The guides contain the impact of a typical fix).
I'm still not quite sure how impact will be used, so it may be a moot point.
Jan 9, '09 9:44pmSteven Skoczen
one way is to have it be a "point" system for egos. "I have 8234 sixlinks impact points from my fixes, booyah."
I'm not entirely sure this use is useful, and its accuracy is strongly compounded by "things you do every day".
It does seem intuitively odd though that fixes (where the work is actually happening) don't have an impact.
I'm going to pull this up to discussions on the site.
So, I have. What do folks think?
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It would be nice to be able to assign an impact to a fix that you have no intention of writing a guide for. An example being my save the right whales fix.
(Although I suppose this could get abused)
Jan 9, '09 9:30pmSteven Skoczen
Yeah, I'm not really sure why fixes don't have impacts.
I guess my two, erm three questions are:
1) What does this help you do / how does it improve the site? (aka why would it be nice)
2) Are there any concerns about abuse? (since it's just one fix, probably not as much)
3) Are there other fields that folks think should come from guides? (difficulty, etc)
Jan 9, '09 9:39pmSam Fladung
I feel that it gives a way of indicating the value of the fix. Since only fixes really have impact, not guides. (The guides contain the impact of a typical fix).
I'm still not quite sure how impact will be used, so it may be a moot point.
Jan 9, '09 9:44pmSteven Skoczen
one way is to have it be a "point" system for egos. "I have 8234 sixlinks impact points from my fixes, booyah."
I'm not entirely sure this use is useful, and its accuracy is strongly compounded by "things you do every day".
It does seem intuitively odd though that fixes (where the work is actually happening) don't have an impact.
I'm going to pull this up to discussions on the site.
So, I have. What do folks think? Reply to comment
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