Timeline for answer to We need to improve the chances of reopening closed questions by StayOnTarget
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| Oct 30, 2020 at 13:57 | comment | added | TylerH | @UuDdLrLrSs Your post says you want an opt-out auto-follow feature after talking about your efforts to follow questions you vote to close. Voting to close is something I do quite often and also is quite often done on posts where no amount of editing would salvage them/make me interested in re-visiting (e.g. recommendation questions, topics far too broad for SO, things not remotely about programming). Especially for people who are active in the queue vs people who only close vote organically, this would be way, way, way more noise than signal. | |
| Oct 30, 2020 at 13:44 | comment | added | StayOnTarget | @TylerH where was the term "voting" used that you are referring to? In any case I was not suggesting opt-out for anything but VTC. | |
| Oct 30, 2020 at 13:43 | comment | added | TylerH | @UuDdLrLrSs So was I. "Voting" encompasses all forms of voting, including close and reopen voting. | |
| Oct 30, 2020 at 13:39 | comment | added | StayOnTarget | @TylerH I was specifically talking about voting to close, not upvote/downvotes. I think the choice of opt in/out depends on what the intended expectation is when the person engages in a VTC. It is my personal preference that I am generally interested to continue engaging in the question. If SO preferred that close voters were to stay engaged, opt-out would be sensible. If not, opt-in would be. I don't think that general UI principles overrule that intention. | |
| Oct 30, 2020 at 13:36 | comment | added | TylerH | UI/UX principles dictate features should be opt-in, not opt-out. Especially features that send you notifications. Or do you think people enjoy spammy/unsolicited emails, newsletters, and notifications? Voting does not constitute interest or involvement to a the degree necessary to merit automatic notifications. | |
| Oct 30, 2020 at 2:23 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
[(its = possessive, it's = "it is" or "it has". See for example <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc&t=1m20s> and <https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Its-and-It%27s>.)] Used more standard formatting (we have italics and bold on this platform).
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| Oct 29, 2020 at 21:54 | comment | added | TheMaster | I also follow questions I VTCd unilaterally. But auto-follow would help a lot | |
| Oct 29, 2020 at 18:15 | history | edited | StayOnTarget | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 29, 2020 at 18:04 | history | answered | StayOnTarget | CC BY-SA 4.0 |