21 votes
make the original suggestion community editable
Lots of user comments are good, but the original form is rarely the final form.
It would be great to see the original suggestion followed by a combined/edited suggestion which is based on comments made in the replies.
Perhaps this is managed by the original poster (email alert: "user 1 will vote for you if you add suggested change a" with a followup to users 2-4 that "user 0 changed their original suggestion to include change a, do you/would you still support this change?")
Perhaps it is managed by a moderator (users 1 and 2 add a flagged [obvious] suggested change and this is added in by a mod to the original suggestion, all users are then alerted to the change and can change their vote accordingly.
beno
I'd be happy with an "Official Suggestion" text block that can replace the initial suggestion. This could only be added by the moderator. Basically, I want to be able to paraphrase/clean up/summarize the entire thread so that other people searching for it can more accurately vote on it. All the original posts should still be retained.
Whatever the final chosen solution, this would help a lot.
2 months ago
tmetro
This is a long standing issue with bug trackers. The initial description is often obsolete after a few dozen comments have been posted. The solution is to use a wiki model, and store a history so malicious or incorrect changes can be reverted. Given that many people vote based on the original description, having the best description is important.
4 months ago
TylerRick
How to make the process public and transparent? SHOW ALL PROPOSED CHANGES mixed in with normal user comments in chronological order (kind of like Trac shows all changes to a ticket in a single timeline). They are after all comments, part of discussion, even if they are also change proposals.
But HIDE all rejected proposals by default to avoid cluttering the thread. (Click show to Ajax-show it...)
5 months ago
TylerRick
However, since not all owners WILL vote on the proposal within in a reasonable amount of time (24h?), default their response to "abstain" if they don't respond. That way, they'd have a CHANCE to vote down the change to "their" suggestion if they wanted to, but slowpokes wouldn't completely prevent changes..
cause voting to end after 24 hours. If that happens (not all owners vote on the proposal)
5 months ago
TylerRick
How to accomplish shared ownership? Let anyone PROPOSE a change to the title/description (since they may want to only vote for it IF their proposal is approved), but require that the majority of the suggestion's OWNERS (definition: those who allocate >0 votes on it) approve it for it to be ratified.
5 months ago
TylerRick
How best to make it "community editable"? I like your idea of notifying the original poster that someone has proposed a chance, twill... Personally I'd like to see changes be a little more public and transparent though, and for the power to not be held exclusively by original poster.
5 months ago
TylerRick
The ability to come up with a suggestion's description should not be reserved for the original creator of the suggestion. That's not really fair for those of us who use our precious votes on "their" suggestion. The suggestion should have SHARED "OWNERSHIP" by all those who vote on it... (Maybe the voters who spend the most votes on it should even have increased editing powers? Just an idea...)
5 months ago
TylerRick
I agree!! The original description could often be improved upon.
But since currently ONLY the original poster's description (and NOT subsequent comments, which may clarify what was unclear in the original, or do a BETTER JOB AT CONVINCING why this is a great idea) shows up in the list, it is important to make the description as GOOD as it can be and REPRESENTATIVE of what the idea's fans want!
5 months ago