Comment 15 for bug 93285

Good question, mpt. We need to be clear about just which aspect of
the problem we care (most) about solving:

 * 'me too' comments in mail to developers (would not be fixed by eg
after-the-fact moderation)
 * 'me too' comments cluttering up the bug page and making it hard to
find the important comments
 * users only adding a 'me too' comment, when there is something more
useful they could do such as providing debug information

As Scott noted a long time ago, to some extent 'me too' comments are
useful as they give a sense of the amount of pain caused by a bug.

One surmountable issue in sampling existing bugs is that only a
relatively small fraction exhibit the problem behaviour (perhaps
1-2%).

Martin

On 6 October 2011 02:47, Matthew Paul Thomas <email address hidden> wrote:
> I think the first thing to decide is: how would we tell whether this bug
> is fixed?
>
> Perhaps one way of deciding that would be to take a random sample of
> comments from bug reports, posted either while the report is open or
> after it was closed. (Assuming that if a report is closed, me-too
> comments posted before it was closed no longer matter, but me-too
> comments posted afterward are still disruptive to subscribers.) Then for
> each comment, measure its age, and whether it's a me-too comment. That
> would help you decide on a target for reduction. Some measures -- like
> after-the-fact moderation -- could work better on old comments than new
> ones, or vice versa.
>
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