GOAL: Make the reasons for voting better understood at the moment where it's important, increase convenience by extra eliminating steps and unnecessary barriers, improve the visibility of the voting proccess that we want to the viewer to follow.
Suggestions for improvements on Comments and Votes:
That the process for commenting and voting should be one single step, not two.
That there should be a sentence on the page with the image explaining why the viewer should vote (people traveling the site are highly unlikely to visit FAQ's).
That the VOTE choice and COMMENT fields should 'stand out' more so as to make it more obvious. (I'll leave this to the creative folks but it could be presented with more dominance)
That the VOTE and COMMENTS fields should immediately follow the image, not at the bottom of all other comments (OR optionally that it can appear in both locations). This reduces the need to scroll down and I suspect that the link to the comment field currently provided (beside the subscribe to link) is simply missed. People will still have the option of reading others comments should this be their personal preference (it would be mine).
Decrease the flood control from 1 minute to 40 seconds. This is one that I run into all the time. This is just another point of inconvenience that can improve the process of comments by eliminating a process barrier.
I'm sure there are other better ideas ..but here's a few.
Suggestions for improvements on Comments and Votes:
That the process for commenting and voting should be one single step, not two.
That there should be a sentence on the page with the image explaining why the viewer should vote (people traveling the site are highly unlikely to visit FAQ's).
That the VOTE choice and COMMENT fields should 'stand out' more so as to make it more obvious. (I'll leave this to the creative folks but it could be presented with more dominance)
That the VOTE and COMMENTS fields should immediately follow the image, not at the bottom of all other comments (OR optionally that it can appear in both locations). This reduces the need to scroll down and I suspect that the link to the comment field currently provided (beside the subscribe to link) is simply missed. People will still have the option of reading others comments should this be their personal preference (it would be mine).
Decrease the flood control from 1 minute to 40 seconds. This is one that I run into all the time. This is just another point of inconvenience that can improve the process of comments by eliminating a process barrier.
I'm sure there are other better ideas ..but here's a few.
Feedback is always encouraged.