Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Hiding ArticleFeedback on the English Wikipedia/reply (12)

Do you really think that it is a useful metric?

How are people supposed to know there is an option in their preferences to disable these boxes? Most users that did tick the box probably found it by accident or are regular users since it is extremely well hidden.

Try it yourself. Ask a random person to make an account on Wikipedia. Then ask them how they would hide that box.

Count the amount of clicks it takes for them to answer that question.

People who already have adblockplus installed will hide it with ABP. Some people use different adblockingsoftware.

Please do not think just because people did not disable it that they like it. They are probably unaware that these boxes can be hidden. And if they know they can be hidden they do not know how to hide the boxes.

The problem with this method is that it assumes everyone is on your side and they have to opt-out to indicate that they oppose the AFT.

If you think that is fair then I propose we switch to a opt-in model, so that the AFT is hidden unless a user explicitly asks for it.

If you do not want to switch sides it is probably not fair to use this as a metric.