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Anonymous user feedback now in testing

Do the "Was this post useful to you?" Yes/No link buttons on comment posts mean anything to a Stack Overflow user? I have been clicking them occasionally, then later checking my username history, but it doesn't seem they are recorded for reading to userspace, which I think would be useful itself.

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  • Relevant: Anonymous user feedback now in testing
    – Bart
    Commented Jun 16, 2012 at 17:37
  • OK, terrific, thank you so much. The feature request direction I had was to make the feature more useful for people who bother to log in, specifically: keep a link list of the "yes, useful" clicks so the user can later review what was useful for study purposes. Incidentally, I would probably only go so far as tallying a user's count of "no, un-useful" clicks because it seems it might encourage topic-trolling.
    – stackuser83
    Commented Jun 16, 2012 at 18:37
  • @stackuser83 - there's a "favourites" function that's more designed for keeping track of useful things you discover.
    – Flexo - Save the data dump
    Commented Jun 16, 2012 at 19:34
  • Ah, thanks. It would still be nice to have a link list of "yes, useful" comments, especially if it could help preserve them.
    – stackuser83
    Commented Jun 17, 2012 at 0:39

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They tend to get translated into votes of one kind or another but there's no hard and fast rules. There is a tool for high rep users (>10K) can use that has a mode for viewing questions where there is a disparity between the post score and the anonymous feedback.

I look through there from time to time (not particularly often) and usually act on a fair number of the posts, even if not all of them. I assume others do this too, so even if it's not directly visible it does contribute and direct attention to unsung or overrated posts.

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    That's interesting, I've never heard of that section of the 10k tools. +1.
    – Josh Darnell
    Commented Jun 16, 2012 at 19:30
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    On the other hand, @jad, even a 43k+ views post might only have 21 feedback votes. But: on Super User there's about 1 feedback vote for each 5 regular votes.
    – Arjan
    Commented Jun 16, 2012 at 19:49
  • Oh, actually the recent figures are even close to 1 feedback vote for each 2 regular votes. Nice.
    – Arjan
    Commented Jun 16, 2012 at 19:56

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