Not sure where to post this.
I got an email:
I clicked to view the post (which is here):
What is expected of me? How do I give my opinion other than upvoting, which I already did? This is confusing.
I believe you can Reply or add to the discussion.
All changes in status generate emails.
Right, but it's the Needs your opinion that was confusing. I can just ignore this. I don't "need" to respond to someone's comment on there, just because it's something I had upvoted.
I believe you can Reply or add to the discussion. Right, but it's the Needs your opinion that was confusing. I can just ignore this. I don't "need" to respond to someone's comment on there, just because it's something I had upvoted.
Items that acquire the "Needs your opinion" status show up on the dashboard. Ones lacking that or any other FL-ascribed status don't.
Right, but it's the Needs your opinion that was confusing.
It’s more like “Needs more opinions” before FL might come to a decision. You’re not required to provide additional feedback.
Right, but it's the Needs your opinion that was confusing. It’s more like “Needs more opinions” before FL might come to a decision.
It’s more like “Needs more opinions” before FL might come to a decision.
I read it as, "Faithlife is probably willing to do this if it gets a lot of votes but otherwise maybe not."
I have had one of those e-mails and took it as AI algorithm running in the background trying to bring to users attention posts that meet criteria set by the third party operators of the feedback site, they are simply trying to generate user engagement. Of course I could be wrong and someone at FL is reviewing list and ticking to indicate they themselves are looking for more comments on that specific idea.
someone at FL is reviewing list and ticking to indicate they themselves are looking for more comments on that specific idea
Yes, someone at FL is changing the status and managing their feedback boards. Feedbear is not directly involved in soliciting feedback for FL.
Yes, I realise someone at FL is doing that - I was referring to the topic of the post in terms of AI being able to generate these sort of emails that attempt to engage user.
someone at FL is reviewing list and ticking to indicate they themselves are looking for more comments on that specific idea Yes, someone at FL is changing the status and managing their feedback boards. Feedbear is not directly involved in soliciting feedback for FL.
Folks, thanks for all the help and ideas. I see this more like the "Your Discussions" link on the forums. If someone has responded to one of your posts since you last looked at that thread, the subject is blue, and otherwise it's grey. On Feedbear, This is merely a notice that someone has commented on one of your ideas. I'm merely critiquing the wording. It doesn't "Need my opinion" -- it already got my opinion (I upvoted it). And it wasn't even my suggestion in the first place; someone else posted it and I upvoted it.
I will happily ignore. I realized that the reason I'm getting these is because of my settings in Feedbear, and I could unsubscribe if I want. But they don't differentiate between "someone commented on a post you upvoted" (which I would unsubscribe from) and "the status of a post you upvoted changed". I would like to see if something I upvoted has changed it status to "Planned" or "Done". But I don't think the status needs to change to "Needs your opinion" if someone comments on it, which is apparently what's happening.
But I don't think the status needs to change to "Needs your opinion" if someone comments on it, which is apparently what's happening.
The status does not automatically change if someone comments on a post.
FL manually changes the status (from No status to Needs your opinion) for suggestions they want more feedback for, to decide what happens next.
If FL decides to implement the suggestion, they then change the status to Planned, then In progress, then Done.
I'm the one who changed the status. We're still learning how to use this tool. My current practice is to leave the status alone if i'm not sure what we ought to do about it: we might refine the suggestion, or merge it with something else. But once it's past that point of triage, i change it to "Needs your opinion" as a signal that we're actively soliciting others' votes and opinions on the suggestion. I don't think the platform distinguishes that you were the one who suggested it in the first place (so this is a "y'all" use of "your opinion"). You can turn off notifications for all status changes under Personal Settings to the right of your profile picture, but it doesn't appear that you can only hide some status changes.
I've noticed that some suggestions that have been added (by people other than FL staff) have skipped "Needs your opinion" because it turns out that they were already secretly being planned/worked on. Not to mention ones that were posted just before the release of Logos/Verbum 9 that were already (secretly) Done, or ones that get posted which are requests for books FL already offers or features that already exist. Those just get marked "Done", at least usually with an explanatory comment.
Thanks Sean for revealing what / who is behind the curtain.
Thanks Sean for revealing what / who is behind the curtain. I'm the one who changed the status. We're still learning how to use this tool. My current practice is to leave the status alone if i'm not sure what we ought to do about it: we might refine the suggestion, or merge it with something else. But once it's past that point of triage, i change it to "Needs your opinion" as a signal that we're actively soliciting others' votes and opinions on the suggestion. I don't think the platform distinguishes that you were the one who suggested it in the first place (so this is a "y'all" use of "your opinion"). You can turn off notifications for all status changes under Personal Settings to the right of your profile picture, but it doesn't appear that you can only hide some status changes.
I should qualify this with the fact that I'm doing this for the Logos Data Sets board, since that's my primary area of responsibility: but others are managing the other boards, and they may have different practices.
Relieved to find out that you’re a person, not a background AI algorithm. [;)]
