Right now suggestions are ordered by how many votes they have ACCUMULATED. While I can see why this would be the ideal view for ADMINS to see, I'm concerned that if that's the way USERS see it too, it will result in "popularity amplification": they will be too likely to use up all their votes on the first 5-10 ideas they see -- the ones that ALREADY have the most votes and hardly "need" more votes -- and NOT EVEN READ DOWN FAR ENOUGH to see the newer ideas at the bottom ... ideas which may be just as good as those at the top but haven't been voted up simply because they don't get the EXPOSURE they need to rise in popularity.

Possible solutions:

1. reward RECENT/short-term trends/activity: if a suggestion has gained some votes recently, list it ABOVE a suggestion that ALREADY has lots of votes but has been fairly static, hasn't attracted any new votes recently (order by "what's hot")

2. to prevent bad ideas from quickly rising to the top just because they're NEW, don't show BRAND-NEW ideas at the top: only start rewarding recent vote activity once a SECOND person has voted for it...

3. also, allow bad suggestions to be voted DOWN (negative votes), so that x number of users who believe suggestion A is a bad idea have power to counteract the y number of users who might vote it up. So when a new user comes to the list and sees that the top suggestion has 25 +'s and 3 -'s, he MIGHT stop long enough to read the comments left by the negative voter before deciding to waste his votes on "me tooing" an already popular suggestion...

4. RANDOMIZE the list that users see by default (only order by popularity if they click "most popular" or similar)

5. order BY DATE SUGGESTED by default