Steven Walling wrote:
Moodbar was not built to be a general purpose issue
reporting tool. And
definitely not something that could or should replace an issue tracker. It
is designed only for asking newcomers whether they are having a generally
positive or negative experience and why, so that we could get an overall
read on the mood of new editors. Either outcome could in fact be the
product of totally normal experiences on Wikipedia.
As for the "colorful faces" you seem to dislike, well, it wasn't designed
with your demographic in mind. To date hundreds of editors are not only
successfully reporting issues, they're getting responses from other
editors:
https://toolserver.org/~dartar/fd/
I'm not following you (and I'm not sure you're following me). Wikimedia's
response to the "gather user feedback regarding the site" issue has been
MoodBar, which, regardless of the demographic I happen to sit in, looks
ridiculous. I can find a number of people from other demographics who agree.
You write that MoodBar wasn't built to be a general purpose issue reporting
tool. But you also write that hundreds of editors are successfully reporting
issues and receiving responses from other editors. Something isn't aligning
here.
As I said, a generic reusable feedback tool that doesn't treat our users
like retards would be cool. MoodBar _might_ be version 0.1 of this concept,
but it needs a lot of work.
MZMcBride