Mostly to counteract the tendency people have to want to reject any suggestion they don't care much about -- I saw this in LJ suggestions for years. Explicitly calling out "should be implemented" as the default people should start with can help override the instinctive "change is usually bad" feeling that most people have (not just on DW -- humans naturally gravitate towards the status quo). Our default attitude on suggestions is "should be implemented" when evaluating them for migration into Bugzilla for that reason. It also means that people who are opposed are more likely to write a comment explaining why they're opposed rather than just voting, since they're trying to persuade others (including me!) of their point of view and they're more likely to do so if they know that the default is "should be implemented".
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Mostly to counteract the tendency people have to want to reject any suggestion they don't care much about -- I saw this in LJ suggestions for years. Explicitly calling out "should be implemented" as the default people should start with can help override the instinctive "change is usually bad" feeling that most people have (not just on DW -- humans naturally gravitate towards the status quo). Our default attitude on suggestions is "should be implemented" when evaluating them for migration into Bugzilla for that reason. It also means that people who are opposed are more likely to write a comment explaining why they're opposed rather than just voting, since they're trying to persuade others (including me!) of their point of view and they're more likely to do so if they know that the default is "should be implemented".