Originally Posted by
auricbond
Fooling around? I was ironically making my point by withholding it. I doubt Thomas is that much of a princess, but maybe you know him better than I do.
I find your point questionable, that is all.
We have a system, where there is RFE text, number of "for" votes and a number of "against" votes.
What Thomas can do is to first look at RFE text, think of his own opinion, then maybe look at for/against votes.
What you are proposing is to add a secondary mechanic where not only Thomas can look at for/against numbers, but also look through messages to weed out votes for/against which he does not want to hold into account.
I can't find direct sources, but Thomas rarely looks through the whole discussion because he doesn't have time. I have seen this mentioned a couple of times and can absolutely believe in. If this is a big misconception, I would be glad to be wrong.
Speaking from the assumption that Thomas doesn't look closely at the discussion, why do you want to make players spend their time writing these messages? Especially in cases where their contribution will not hold much information. The point of voting system in my opinion is to bring out critical/interesting RFEs simply through the number of votes. If half of these votes will be missing because people are lazy, this system will not function effectively.
And people are lazy, including myself. I'm writing this whole thing in a rare fit of passion.