Feature requests votes pointless as long time users can't vote at all

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I signed up just to vote on Unlock with Device but I have no votes and can’t.

I’ve used Bitwarden for years, set it up for a bunch of people and so on.

What’s the point of having votes when experienced users aren’t able to contribute to feedback?

Is the BW development - community communication this bad overall?

I also see multiple people (including myself) asking for an update and if this feature was rejected and all being ignored also.

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Discourse has a “Trust level” mechanism. Voting requires (iirc) attaining trust level 1. Having just joined yesterday, your trust level is “new user”. Spend some time wandering around and reading a few things and you will quickly be upped to trust level 1.

There is no linkage between the community and your vault (which is a good thing), so there is no opportunity to grant capabilities to long term vault holders nor to paying customers.

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I have better things to do, that’s not a solution.

Voting seems more like a ‘recycle bin’ solution. Give it to people so they stop asking and fussing but only recycle 1% of what goes in.

Do me a favor and vote for me please, and anyone else who sees this.

Perhaps an opt in option to just check approximate time used of bitwarden account via email securely just for this site could be added. Assuming user feedback is actually wanted of which I’m very skeptical.
I don’t think it would be a significant security risk because:

  • It’s opt in
  • Most people will use an email address which they use everywhere anyway
  • Could make result random or in increments so it won’t link to any specific account creation date

Thanbks for info.

Edit: what a shame I don’t have the ‘trust’ to make such a suggestion…

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For the record, Nommy has achieved basic user, having met the requirements with less than 30 minutes of read-time.

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And this is what you get when you have a system that rewards just spamming crap to do anything. Maybe I should get a bot to just post random crap eveywhere for voting purposes.

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I kind of agree with @Nommy. I totally understand the purpose of the trust feature, don’t get me wrong. But for those of us who spend more time helping family members and friends on-boarded, and not scrolling through the forum, we should be allowed to have a voice on features. At this point a troll has more rights than what @Nommy and I do, just because they interact more with the forum than we do.

If there was a feature that connected to the Bitwarden back-end, that confirmed you were a paying customer, that would be a better confirmation, and give paying customers higher priority as well.

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@cclarke Welcome to the forum!

For what it’s worth, your forum trust level has already been bumped from “new user” to “basic user” (after only 13 minutes of “read time” on the forum). Can you still not vote?

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Thanks for the feedback! Our trust level settings are aligned with standard Discourse practices and are intended to promote a fair and secure voting environment.