Thread:Talk:Article feedback/The future of AFT/reply (13)

I don't happen to remember seeing any constructive feedback from Subfader, just lots of whingeing about his personal preferences and apparent inability to understand the project's goals.

Your constructive feedback has been that a small subset of entertainment articles seems to be attracting a lot fan/hate votes. Previous feedback has indicated that pop culture articles in general have this challenge, so this is not exactly news.

Your proposed solution was to turn it off on 100% of articles, so that you could protect the <1% that interest you. This has been rejected previously as disproportionate.

Turning it off on just your favorite subset of articles has previously been rejected as premature, given that this is an experiment with multiple goals. Readers might be giving irrational ratings to those articles, but they might also be turning into new editors at a greater rate than average. Since converting readers into editors is a primary goal, then that alone would justify keeping the tool turned on for those articles—and we won't find out if this is the case, if we turn it off to protect you from the trivial annoyance of irrational ratings during the experiment.