[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47046: Site Health: Remove grading

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#47046: Site Health: Remove grading
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 Reporter:  Cybr                |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement         |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Shortcodes          |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal              |   Keywords:  site-health
  Focuses:  ui, administration  |
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 A few people have echoed their concerns regarding the Site Health on the
 feature announcement:
 https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/04/25/site-health-check-in-5-2/

 The issue with grading is that users will favor a 100% score over what's
 right for their website.

 Leading to issues, among:
 - ambiguity effect,
 - focalism,
 - and selective exposure.

 To explain those, people often go for the highest score, even if the
 outcome is ultimately detrimental. This is more easily achieved when the
 user doesn't know what implications getting such a rating would mean.

 This argument is strengthened further as third parties can add custom
 status checks.

 It would be better to leave the scoring out, and let users make informed
 decisions on their own (or via help from support forums), without grading
 them.

 I haven't run the health check on production servers, whereon I've
 disabled automatic updates, offloaded cron jobs to the server, added
 Twenty Nineteen as an inactive fallback theme, added idle in-case-of-
 emergency plugins, and disabled imagick in favor of GD. With that, I'm
 sure I'll face a score of 30% or lower, and I doubt the majority of users
 will know why and reverse that process.

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