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The voting experiment announcement was to be monitored until 2025-08-08. This is probably why there was no feedback to my post there for ten days now. Hence, I am re-posting it as a separate question:

This morning, we expanded the vote prompt and popover to all users.

Does that mean the experiment has graduated?

Or does that mean that the experiment has moved from A/B testing to only B testing?

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    Sounds like it's been graduated... "Yay, another poorly received feature added to the site..." At least I'd forgotten it exists due to userscripts.
    – Thom A
    Commented Jan 27 at 9:38
  • @ThomA You don't happen to have a link to that userscript?
    – Bill Tür stands with Ukraine
    Commented Jan 27 at 11:09
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    Sure, @BillTürstandswithUkraine ; it's coincidentally written by VLAZ.
    – Thom A
    Commented Jan 27 at 11:19
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    Is there really a difference between an experiment and a feature now days? it's not like either actually take our feedback into account.
    – Kevin B
    Commented Jan 27 at 15:56
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    It's an experiment to the owners of the site, a reality to the rest of us.
    – Gimby
    Commented Jan 28 at 10:32
  • Since then, the uBLock of the relevant js-exp-vote-zero stopped working. Is there any other way? Perhaps a userscript changing back the Vote abomination back to 0?
    – Vladimir F Героям слава
    Commented Apr 14 at 9:04
  • @VladimirFГероямслава see How do I opt out or manually revert the new "vote encouragement" experiment? - there are a few solutions. One of them is mine.
    – VLAZ
    Commented Apr 14 at 11:44
  • @VLAZ I have a comment there that those userscripts did not work for me, but yours is one day older. I will try it, although first probably the uBlock solution from April as it is the most recent.
    – Vladimir F Героям слава
    Commented Apr 14 at 11:49
  • @VladimirFГероямслава I've updated mine when I was notified there would be a change. Tyler also updated his userscript, while Abdul Aziz Barkat posted a new CSS-only solution as well as a uBlock Origin rule. I'm running my userscript and it does work, although now there is a flash of change of Vote -> zero on page load (since "Vote" is now server-side rendered).
    – VLAZ
    Commented Apr 14 at 11:51

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No it's not an experiment anymore. It has been graduated. When exactly I don't know. (Voting activity apparently increased.)

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  • You may want to edit in a quote of Hoid's comment, to save folks a click.
    – V2Blast
    Commented Apr 13 at 19:58
  • @V2Blast There is not much in the comment beyond what is contained in this answer. I just wanted to put the link as a way to prove what I write is true.
    – NoDataDumpNoContribution
    Commented Apr 14 at 8:02

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