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At the moment, a vote for an issue feels a little … hollow (or coming from the other direction, rude), given that all votes have equal weight.
Clearly, me scrolling past a good idea and going 'hey, I kinda want that' is different from a user going 'without support for this accessibility issue, I _literally cannot use Orion.'
Other voting-platforms I've seen have something like limited votes, but allow you to assign multiple votes to a given suggestion (I personally like this approach) - you can choose to give up your voting-power over other minor issues, but go all-in assigning all ten of your votes to this limitation that is an absolute dealbreaker for you, personally.
Another alternative might be a two-tier voting system, where you have an unlimited number of the current upvotes, but the further ability to assign a single 'dealbreaker' issue for yourself.
This is helpful in two ways:
If I know that I have a differentiated way to express important issues, I can feel more comfortable using the normal upvote-system for things that "would be kinda nice" without feeling like I'm watering-down the feedback system.
This is particularly helpful in the case of 'poweruser features' - a feature might sound work-around-able to the average user, or to a developer who uses a different workflow, and be under the misapprehension that it's no big deal to leave that particular feature out … but for a subset of users, that single feature might be the killer feature that leads to them using (and evangelizing, and paying for) Orion over ten, fifty, or a hundred other fixes or features. That priority-information is best encoded somewhere.
It reduces noise in the conversations - about every other thread I've read on here has somebody posting something upset along the lines of "THIS IS WHY I'M GIVING UP ON ORION
", which doesn't really contribute to the conversation … but also is, in its own way, useful information that it's valuable to collect.(Call it a stretch goal, but also: if folks have a "THIS IS WHY I'M GIVING UP ON ORION
" button, that could potentially be a different tier of notification - and a chance to re-acquire a subscriber if you do fix the omission they depend on, heh.)
