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    • PeterJonesP
      PeterJones @Lycan Thrope
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      @Lycan-Thrope said in POLL: File grouping in Search-results -- what kind do YOU want?:

      If you’re able to view the peole that voted

      You should be able to. I just tried as anonymous reader, and couldn’t. But as far as I can tell, any logged-in user should be able to look at the results, then click on the N votes link on the right of each graph, and it will show the voters.

      I’ll wager it’s the same people that respond to most of the questions

      Indeed, as of now, I see 7 regulars, 1 infrequent poster, and 2 I hadn’t remembered/recognized.

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      • Lycan ThropeL
        Lycan Thrope @PeterJones
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        @PeterJones ,
        I hate that my insight into human nature is accurate, even when I don’t know how to see the results of the poll tools you can use.

        Thanks, i was able to see the votes after your hint about how to view them. :-)

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
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          I’ll wager it’s the same people that respond to most of the questions

          as of now, I see 7 regulars

          And indeed, the author of Notepad++ typically denounces the opinions of “regulars” as not valuable (for some reason).

          It’s a good point that only the “regulars” and those experiencing problems visit this site. And thus polling that small group doesn’t really have much value.

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          • Lycan ThropeL
            Lycan Thrope @Alan Kilborn
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            @Alan-Kilborn said in POLL: File grouping in Search-results -- what kind do YOU want?:

            And thus polling that small group doesn’t really have much value.

            That value depends on if you value those who do respond, versus the opinion of fickle and fleeting forum users. I guess you really need to view the polling value, by how much you value the opinions of those that respond to your poll, to give you direction on the poll’s subject.

            It’s a nice tool, so that people you may respect ( us happy few. :-) ) may be of use in giving direction, as any input is better than NO input. :-)

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            • Alan KilbornA
              Alan Kilborn @Lycan Thrope
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              @Lycan-Thrope

              Well… I meant my perceived value of such a poll to the Notepad++ developer in order to drive development in a certain direction.
              I thought this should be clear from my previous postings in this thread.

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              • Lycan ThropeL
                Lycan Thrope @Alan Kilborn
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                @Alan-Kilborn ,
                Well, it wasn’t as clear, to me, as it is now. :-) I just thought you’d like a little conversation about polls in general since you brought up it’s value or lackof , potential value. :-)

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                • TBugReporterT
                  TBugReporter @Lycan Thrope
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                  @Lycan-Thrope said in POLL: File grouping in Search-results -- what kind do YOU want?:

                  people […] don’t really have a preference

                  I think this is the most important point about the polls: very few people have a strong opinion about the issues that have been polled. Perhaps response would be better if “I don’t really care” was an explicit selectable option.

                  (BTW, that would be my response to this one; if it were to change, I’d simply adapt to it - but I’m not one of the people trying to deal with hundreds or thousands of files at once.)

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                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn @TBugReporter
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                    @TBugReporter said in POLL: File grouping in Search-results -- what kind do YOU want?:

                    very few people have a strong opinion about the issues that have been polled

                    Good point. Although… I think if I were reading a short/easy poll on something that maybe doesn’t interest me much… might cause me to think about how the software should function, and then I could offer an opinion in that direction. (I know, a lot of “maybe” and “might” in there).

                    if “I don’t really care” was an explicit selectable option.

                    This is another good point, and I suggest to future poll creators to heed it (just to see what happens).
                    But… my guess is that it wouldn’t help all that much.
                    Perhaps we can count as “don’t care” the number of viewers of this topic minus the number that voted.

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                    • PeterJonesP
                      PeterJones @Alan Kilborn
                      last edited by PeterJones

                      @Alan-Kilborn said in POLL: File grouping in Search-results -- what kind do YOU want?:

                      Perhaps we can count as “don’t care” the number of viewers of this topic minus the number that voted.

                      But that math doesn’t work right, because it’s not the number of “viewers”, but the number of “views” that you see. So if you’ve looked at this thread 6 times, that counts as 6 separate “views”, even though you’re only one “viewer”. (For example, I was both view 196 and view 198 by going somewhere else then coming back to this page.)

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                      • Alan KilbornA
                        Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
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                        @PeterJones said in POLL: File grouping in Search-results -- what kind do YOU want?:

                        So if you’ve looked at this thread 6 times, that counts as 6 separate “views”, even though you’re only one “viewer”. (For example, I was both view 196 and view 198 by going somewhere else then coming back to this page.)

                        Hmm, this doesn’t seem to be my experience. It is sitting on 198 and no matter what I do to try and increase it, it stays on 198.

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