Well, patches aren't excempt from the quality survey mechanism of PerlMonks and occasionally get
downvoted, although for other reasons than e.g. SoPW's or meditations (patching the wrong thing, introducing errors with the patch, patching based on wrong assumptions, etc). Then often a -1 is enough for them to briefly show up among the Worst Nodes.
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Originally i liked the idea of voting on patches. Then i realized that it was a bad idea because it allows people to show disaproval without providing any substance. It doesnt provide the author with any real information as to whats wrong with the patch it just signals some kind of disapproval. Which is a problem as there are people who can vote who are generally feature adverse. They dont see any need for providing functionality that they do not directly want. And they vote. So i ended up just ignoring patch votes. If the person voting didnt want to to take the time to explain their objection I personally refused to consider their opinion worthy of consideration.
If I were still an active PMdevil I would probably advocate that we remove the ability to vote on patches.
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So, voting on patches is functionality that [you] do not directly want. Eh? ;-)
I appreciate voting on patches because it's one of the few ways in which pmdevils get actual XP credit — however little — for their efforts.
And it is certainly easy enough to ignore it if that's your inclination.
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