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I've been following all the voting in general for a longer while, and actually made a small study out of it.

The result was, that as a content edit (even an empty one, nothing edited) lifts a question up to the default front page, those questions edited several times gather a remarkable more votes. Also, adding a new answer or edting content of any answer lift the question baqck to the top. These features, IMO, pulls the floor off from counting the votes for finding out the real importance of issues.

As an example:

• The most voted question https://together.jolla.com/question/914/introduced-in-1038-differentiate-native-sailfishos-and-android-apps-in-jolla-store/
  • 9 lift-ups
  • viewed 2000 times
  • voted 434 times
  • (votes/view ratio 15-22%)
• One to compare with: https://together.jolla.com/question/1339/show-calendar-entries-in-events-view/
  • 1 lift-up
  • 440 views
  • 167 votes
  • (votes/view ratio 38%)

The one above got the roadmap tag, one below didn't. These examples are not my own questions, I selected them to describe the result I got from the whole stydy. I wrote a couple of answers here how this could be avoided in the future, but I don't know if they are possible or not. Please add an answer if you come up with another idea.

ps. I'm not going to lift-up this :) However, each added answer does.

I've been following all the voting in general for a longer while, and actually made a small study out of it.

The result was, that as a content edit (even an empty one, nothing edited) lifts a question up to the default front page, those questions edited several times gather a remarkable more votes. Also, adding a new answer or edting content of any answer lift the question baqck to the top. These features, IMO, pulls the floor off from counting the votes for finding out the real importance of issues.

As an example:

• The most voted question https://together.jolla.com/question/914/introduced-in-1038-differentiate-native-sailfishos-and-android-apps-in-jolla-store/
  • introduced 25-Dec-2013
  • 9 lift-ups
  • viewed 2000 times
  • voted 434 times
  • (votes/view ratio 15-22%)
• One to compare with: https://together.jolla.com/question/1339/show-calendar-entries-in-events-view/
  • introduced 25-Dec-2013
  • 1 lift-up
  • 440 views
  • 167 votes
  • (votes/view ratio 38%)

The one above got the roadmap tag, one below didn't. These examples are not my own questions, I selected them to describe the result I got from the whole stydy. I wrote a couple of answers here how this could be avoided in the future, but I don't know if they are possible or not. Please add an answer if you come up with another idea.

ps. I'm not going to lift-up this :) However, each added answer does.

I've been following all the voting in general for a longer while, and actually made a small study out of it.

The result was, that as a content edit (even an empty one, nothing edited) lifts a question up to the default front page, those questions edited several times tend to gather a remarkable more votes. Also, adding a new answer or edting editing content of any answer lift the question baqck to the top. These features, IMO, pulls the floor off from counting the votes for finding out the real importance of issues.

As an example:

• The most voted question https://together.jolla.com/question/914/introduced-in-1038-differentiate-native-sailfishos-and-android-apps-in-jolla-store/
  • introduced 25-Dec-2013
  • 9 lift-ups
  • viewed 2000 times
  • voted 434 times
  • (votes/view ratio 15-22%)
• One to compare with: https://together.jolla.com/question/1339/show-calendar-entries-in-events-view/
  • introduced 25-Dec-2013
  • 1 lift-up
  • 440 views
  • 167 votes
  • (votes/view ratio 38%)

The one above got the roadmap tag, one below didn't. These examples are not my own questions, I selected them to describe the result I got from the whole stydy. I wrote a couple of answers here how this could be avoided in the future, but I don't know if they are possible or not. Please add an answer if you come up with another idea.

ps. I'm not going to lift-up this :) However, each added answer does.