Thread:Talk:Article feedback/The future of AFT/reply (16)

Once again you've demonstrated that you have reading comprehension "issues", so I'll try and write at a third grade level for your benefit. I did NOT propose the tool should be turned off on 100% of articles (although that would probably be the the best solution for this useless tool). I said it would be smart to turn it off on BIO pages the same way IMDb does (which, by the way, I never saw get "rejected" except by the two most obnoxious people on here who have evidently never written a single article themselves). And I doubt it's only a "small" subset of articles - Anyone who thinks the only pages getting 90% fan/hate votes are the ones that show up in the dashboard are obviously mathematically challenged. The dashboard shows pages that are getting the MOST ratings, but for each page that shows up there, one can surmise there are HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS that will never show up there. If 50% of the pages on the dashboard are "celeb culture" articles - i.e., Celebrities (which also includes Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, etc), Films, TV shows, Awards shows, etc, etc. - then only an idiot would not think that 50% of ALL articles are getting these same types of meaningless votes.

And for the record - The pages I monitor are far from my "favorite" articles. I couldn't care less about 99% of the subjects of the articles I'm watching. As I stated - I started watching them because I saw a NEED for it. The kids editing the pages are more likely to vandalize and, as a parent, I became concerned about the dissemination of information to young READERS who do NOT vandalize, but will simply believe what they read (I've seen it all - from gay rumors to allegations of murder, and everything in-between). Since Wikipedia celebrity articles are highly trafficked by young readers, and some pages can be viewed by THOUSANDS of readers in a period of just one hour, I became concerned about what youngsters were reading. So please don't give me this bull$#!t about this being some "personal" issue about my "favorite" articles

As far as the problem being a "trivial annoyance" to me. I waited a couple of MONTHS before coming here. I thought the tool would be interesting to see how it worked. I honestly expected a lot more voters to participate (which would have "averaged" out the fans/haters) and that it wouldn't be a problem, but from what I've seen - at least half of ALL votes are people who are voting on their feelings about the subjects themselves and not on the articles.

In short, to clarify for the people here who are too "developmentally challenged" to grasp what I've already said - I didn't have an opinion one way or another about the new tool when it was first implemented, I honestly expected it to work better than it has and I was NOT one of the people who jumped on here the first day to whine about it, but at this point I think enough time has gone by to share my findings about this failed little "experiment"