Hey Lance, that must have been the problem. I probably just assumed that username and email address were one and the same. In any case it works for me now! Thanks!
+1! I'd vote your suggestion up, my friend, but I don't have any more *!@# votes left!!
Honestly though, 8 votes?? They give you just enough votes to suck you in and make you THINK you have a voice, but the voice they let you have feels about the size of a mouse trying to squeak a message to his friend on the other side of the jungle.
Currently when you try to create a suggestion when you have 0 votes, it says "Slow down! You need points to make suggestions."
To that, I would just like to respond: "Speed up! You need to hurry up and implement the changes that people have suggested so that they can get their votes back!!" :-)
By the way, there is currently an easy (albeit inconvenient) way to work around this limitation: just change one of your votes to 0 votes temporarily, create the new suggestion, change the new suggestion to 0 votes, then vote for your old suggestion again that you originally had your votes. Clumsy, but it works.
Otherwise, you may tick people off who have lots of good suggestions they want to make but are prevented from doing so. If you're worried about people spamming or suggesting lots of crappy suggestions then (1) ban the spammers, (2) mark the crappy suggestions as crappy suggestions ("deleted"). :)
@metavida: I agree!! And I intend to start adding suggestions to facebook.uservoice.com soon... :)
I got lucky with Facebook. But I don't LIKE getting lucky. I want to know that I can add suggestions for ANY product, even ones where we didn't get lucky and have someone else violate the TOS for us. :-) Do you honestly expect me to believe that Google officially set up http://gmail.uservoice.com/?
They should probably be required to list to the best of their knowledge who the official owner *would* be. This way, they are able to create the site *without* "misrepresenting the extent of [their] affiliation or role."
(2) Add a "this is not yet officially supported by ___" notice and a "claim this site now" form that shows up on all *unofficial* UserVoice sites.
All that would be required to allow this are the following changes:
(1) Add an option to the sign-up form that lets people choose between "I represent that I am affiliated with this product/organization and authorized to be the official owner of this UV site." and "I am *not* affiliated with this product/organization. I wish to create an *unofficial* UV site for them, which they may claim."
An existing UserVoice site that is already being used, is already bubbling with good ideas and activity, *should* actually be easier to pitch/sell to a company/product owner than a static list of features and a boring sign-up form.
I guess my point is that I can't think of why it would be a bad thing for users to be able to create unofficial sites and start seeding them with ideas. This would actually create a strong motivation for the owners of the project to step in and claim that name as their official UserVoice site. [continued in next comment due to annoying character limit...]
Well-behaved users are prevented from doing so by this clause in the TOS: "Examples of unacceptab behavior ... include: ... implying or pretending to be affiliated with a company or organization with which you are not affiliated, or misrepresenting the extent of your affiliation or role...."
Well shucks, I guess that rules out people like me signing up for facebook.uservoice.com. :-/
1) http://facebook.uservoice.com/ already exists (as does myspace., ...)! So either the UserVoice team created those as placeholders simply to prevent over-eager users from stealing the name so that they could eventually pitch the idea to FB and get them using it and charge them lots of $$ ... OR a plain old ordinary user like me created the page but forgot (??) to add any suggestions to it...
Not everyone has the Resiseable Form Fields Firefox extension installed, after all... :-) (and even though I do, it doesn't seem to be working for me in FF3 anyway!)
I was about to suggest having a "preview" button in addition to "post" but that wouldn't really be necessary if we could edit our comments after they're posted, would it now...
The most you can SPREAD YOURSELF OUT currently is by voting for 8 different suggestions. And the most you're able FOCUS your votes is by allocating 3 to ONE suggestion.
So you can have a maximum of only 2 "highest priority" suggestions, but as many as 8 "lowest priority" suggestions...
Personally, I think these parameters should be tweakable, even the max votes/suggestion... 4+3+2+1 = 10 votes.
I agree. Depending on the goals of the admin, a different number of votes might be useful. Personally, I think 8 votes is not enough.
But surely a lot of thought went into choosing that number and finding the right balance...? Is there a link to that somewhere so we could see how you came up with it?
I'm imagining a user interface something like del.icio.us or SlimTimer, where users could click on an existing tag to vote it up (/ add those tags for themselves), or could type to add new tags...
It might be a bit overkill (hope not), but it sure would be cool! :)
Also, list all possibly RELATED suggestions in the right column based on like tags...?
I agree! Often you'll end up with 2 suggestions that are RELATED (but not DUPLICATES) and it would be nice if they could be grouped together.
I personally think categories (choose from list created by admin) and tags are distinct enough features that we could have BOTH of them, but I'd probly be most excited about TAGS, because tags let you add MULTIPLE tags and let the average user have more say.
Related: You should also be able to edit/delete your own comments that you post on other people's suggestions. (See "edit your own feedback after it's saved" <https://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/3421>)
Also, since it can be at times ambiguous whether A is a dup of B or B is a dup of A, it is helpful to have the duplicate-flagging feature more transparent so the owners of both A and B
1. are AWARE that their suggestion is at risk of being deleted, give them a chance to DO something before it disappears w/o warning
2. could talk to each other, agree which version is better, and move comments there
Unfortunately, there is no way to flag a suggestion as a duplicate from the suggestion detail view -- after reading the comment, one would have to press "Back" to go back to the list view and mark it THERE. More likely though if there is a link to the CORRECT suggestion, users will simply follow link and neglect to go back and by flag it as a duplicate.
Therefore, please add this to detail view!
Currently, it's much more satisfying to simply post as a comment: "Duplicate of http://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/2322"!! Then you get immediate gratification, and it actually shows up for other users which is helpful in 2 ways:
(1) directs them to the CORRECT suggestion, so that they don't waste their time voting for a duplicate.
(2) encourages THEM to mark this suggestion as a dup too!
I like your idea, amessinger. I sure find it stifling to only have 8 votes to use and then to be prevented from voting on anything new without removing one's original votes. You could be WAITING FOR MONTHS to get those votes back if the developers are slow (and don't open their source up so you can help speed them along)!
I think if this is added, though, admins should have option to to disable.
Duplicate of http://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/2322 . And please don't limit the ability to just admins: harness the wisdom of the crowds, for crying out loud, and let all users add/suggest tags!
Also, please delete or change official response, as it shows up in the suggestion list and contradicts the response you gave in your last post (which for some reason is not marked as official response?).
IMHO the reason a suggestion should not be deleted when its vote count goes to zero is that an intelligent person with good ideas may want to CREATE more suggestions than one has votes to create. By creating a suggestion and then changing one's vote from 1 to 0, it allows me to be useful and create good suggestions that will show up for other people to vote up while keeping my own votes elsewhere.
Related idea: Show # of - votes in addition to sum.
Many sites (newegg, amazon, ...) have done this successfully. I like to see "product X has 20 - reviews and 30 + ones" better than just "+10".
Might be too cluttered to show # of -'s in search results, but definitely on suggestion DETAIL page, could show it attractively below vote total... Even a full histogram like amazon does...
2. Allow bad suggestions to be voted DOWN (negative votes <https://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/176>). So when a new user comes to the list and sees that the #1 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...
(The original suggester shouldn't be overly rewarded for voting on their own suggestion, so only start rewarding for recent vote activity when OTHER people have voted for it...)
1. reward RECENT votes/trends/activity/comments: 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").
I'm not saying its RANK should go down simply for not attracting recent votes, just that it doesn't need to be DISPLAYED at top.
The ideas at the bottom of the list might 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.
As it is, I'm afraid all the suggestions that are on the top of the list (the popular ones), will end up attracting the majority of new (or "transfer") votes. People will likely 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...
I suggest that the ordering of the list take into account other factors, including possibly the "freshness"/"staleness" of the suggestion, whether there have been RECENT votes, or even randomness...
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...)
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)
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.
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.
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...)
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!
Vermeer, you want just admins to be able to edit descriptions in addition to titles, right?
Lance, why not just change the title of this one to "let admin edit titles and descriptions"? ... rather than creating a new near-duplicate suggestion...
Most forums that I've used (f.e., vBulletin on ubuntuforums.org) let you edit your comments after they're posted. Sure, there's a small risk of abuse, but the benefits outweigh those. :)
AT LEAST let us DELETE our comments if we no longer like them; then we could post a second comment that we like better!
[ I would have titled this "edit your own COMMENTS after their saved" since "feedback" can be somewhat ambiguous, but alas, there's no way for me to edit your title, and it would seem rude for me create a new suggestion with my preferred title and then flag yours as "duplicate"... :) ]
Hey Lance, that must have been the problem. I probably just assumed that username and email address were one and the same. In any case it works for me now! Thanks!
2 Password changing is broken; can't reset password - 2 months ago
2008-07-03: I sent a message to team@uservoice.com a week ago but haven't received any response yet. Am I really the only one with this problem?
2 Password changing is broken; can't reset password - 3 months ago
+1! (I'd vote for it but I don't have any more votes)
0 Allow attachements with a request - 3 months ago
+1! I'd vote your suggestion up, my friend, but I don't have any more *!@# votes left!!
Honestly though, 8 votes?? They give you just enough votes to suck you in and make you THINK you have a voice, but the voice they let you have feels about the size of a mouse trying to squeak a message to his friend on the other side of the jungle.
0 More Votes - 3 months ago
Currently when you try to create a suggestion when you have 0 votes, it says "Slow down! You need points to make suggestions."
To that, I would just like to respond: "Speed up! You need to hurry up and implement the changes that people have suggested so that they can get their votes back!!" :-)
1 Ability to create new suggestion with zero (0) votes left - 3 months ago
See also "Allow easy linking to another suggestion by # in comments" <https://uservoice.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/8211>
1 Allow simple formatting / markup in comments (italics, etc.) - 3 months ago
See also "Allow simple formatting / markup in comments (italics, etc.)" <https://uservoice.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/8215>
0 Allow easy linking to another suggestion by # in comments - 3 months ago
By the way, there is currently an easy (albeit inconvenient) way to work around this limitation: just change one of your votes to 0 votes temporarily, create the new suggestion, change the new suggestion to 0 votes, then vote for your old suggestion again that you originally had your votes. Clumsy, but it works.
1 Ability to create new suggestion with zero (0) votes left - 3 months ago
Otherwise, you may tick people off who have lots of good suggestions they want to make but are prevented from doing so. If you're worried about people spamming or suggesting lots of crappy suggestions then (1) ban the spammers, (2) mark the crappy suggestions as crappy suggestions ("deleted"). :)
1 Ability to create new suggestion with zero (0) votes left - 3 months ago
Tagged this suggestion with: linking, markup, comments
(At least I would tag it with those tags, if tagging were possible. See https://uservoice.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/2322)
0 Allow easy linking to another suggestion by # in comments - 3 months ago
This would also be significant in that since there is an (annoying) character limit per post, writing "#8211" would waste a LOT fewer characters than "https://uservoice.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/8211"
0 Allow easy linking to another suggestion by # in comments - 3 months ago
ping @cainlevy: The official response still hasn't been updated to reflect the change in plans.
0 when vote count reaches zero, suggestion is marked duplicate - 3 months ago
@metavida: I agree!! And I intend to start adding suggestions to facebook.uservoice.com soon... :)
I got lucky with Facebook. But I don't LIKE getting lucky. I want to know that I can add suggestions for ANY product, even ones where we didn't get lucky and have someone else violate the TOS for us. :-) Do you honestly expect me to believe that Google officially set up http://gmail.uservoice.com/?
1 Let users create unofficial sites that can be claimed later - 3 months ago
@tmetro and others who wished to amend this suggestion to say that *any* user should be able to create suggestions with zero votes:
I created a new suggestion for that over here:
https://uservoice.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/8212
0 admin should be able to create suggestions with zero votes - 3 months ago
They should probably be required to list to the best of their knowledge who the official owner *would* be. This way, they are able to create the site *without* "misrepresenting the extent of [their] affiliation or role."
(2) Add a "this is not yet officially supported by ___" notice and a "claim this site now" form that shows up on all *unofficial* UserVoice sites.
1 Let users create unofficial sites that can be claimed later - 4 months ago
All that would be required to allow this are the following changes:
(1) Add an option to the sign-up form that lets people choose between "I represent that I am affiliated with this product/organization and authorized to be the official owner of this UV site." and "I am *not* affiliated with this product/organization. I wish to create an *unofficial* UV site for them, which they may claim."
1 Let users create unofficial sites that can be claimed later - 4 months ago
An existing UserVoice site that is already being used, is already bubbling with good ideas and activity, *should* actually be easier to pitch/sell to a company/product owner than a static list of features and a boring sign-up form.
1 Let users create unofficial sites that can be claimed later - 4 months ago
I guess my point is that I can't think of why it would be a bad thing for users to be able to create unofficial sites and start seeding them with ideas. This would actually create a strong motivation for the owners of the project to step in and claim that name as their official UserVoice site. [continued in next comment due to annoying character limit...]
1 Let users create unofficial sites that can be claimed later - 4 months ago
edit to previous post (is impossible (unfortunately)): s/^/2)/
1 Let users create unofficial sites that can be claimed later - 4 months ago
Well-behaved users are prevented from doing so by this clause in the TOS: "Examples of unacceptab behavior ... include: ... implying or pretending to be affiliated with a company or organization with which you are not affiliated, or misrepresenting the extent of your affiliation or role...."
Well shucks, I guess that rules out people like me signing up for facebook.uservoice.com. :-/
1 Let users create unofficial sites that can be claimed later - 4 months ago
1) http://facebook.uservoice.com/ already exists (as does myspace., ...)! So either the UserVoice team created those as placeholders simply to prevent over-eager users from stealing the name so that they could eventually pitch the idea to FB and get them using it and charge them lots of $$ ... OR a plain old ordinary user like me created the page but forgot (??) to add any suggestions to it...
1 Let users create unofficial sites that can be claimed later - 4 months ago
I was going to start using it to keep track of my complaints/ideas for Facebook, for example, but ran into 2 problems...
1 Let users create unofficial sites that can be claimed later - 4 months ago
See http://loginisnotaverb.com/ for a site dedicated to correcting this pervasive misspelling. And here are a couple high-profile sites that spell these words correctly for examples, in case you're more impressed by precedent than the rules of grammar :) ... http://getsatisfaction.com/, http://www.dipity.com/, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/, http://flickr.com/, https://www.myopenid.com/
1 Spell "log in" / "sign up" correctly as verbs - 4 months ago
Not everyone has the Resiseable Form Fields Firefox extension installed, after all... :-) (and even though I do, it doesn't seem to be working for me in FF3 anyway!)
0 Make the comment textarea bigger - 4 months ago
+1 "navigating to a new page every time is [pretty] annoying"
"There would can be far too many comments for us to put inline."
So don't load the comments until a person clicks on the "comments" link (Ajax)! :)
And have a "hide comments" button if they want to uncluttered the view again without reloading the page...
0 Show comments inline - 4 months ago
I was about to suggest having a "preview" button in addition to "post" but that wouldn't really be necessary if we could edit our comments after they're posted, would it now...
1 edit your own feedback after it's saved - 4 months ago
That is an awesome idea! Since I don't have enough votes to vote on all of the suggestions I'm interested in...
0 make it possible to "star" suggestions - 4 months ago
3. Order the list view RANDOMLY by default and only order by popularity if they click "most popular"...?
4. Order by date and show the newest (with >= 2 fans) at the top...?
5. Order by number of distinct voters each suggestion has...?
1 Make it easier for newer suggestions to rise in popularity - 4 months ago
The most you can SPREAD YOURSELF OUT currently is by voting for 8 different suggestions. And the most you're able FOCUS your votes is by allocating 3 to ONE suggestion.
So you can have a maximum of only 2 "highest priority" suggestions, but as many as 8 "lowest priority" suggestions...
Personally, I think these parameters should be tweakable, even the max votes/suggestion... 4+3+2+1 = 10 votes.
0 Allow admins to set number of votes - 4 months ago
I agree. Depending on the goals of the admin, a different number of votes might be useful. Personally, I think 8 votes is not enough.
But surely a lot of thought went into choosing that number and finding the right balance...? Is there a link to that somewhere so we could see how you came up with it?
0 Allow admins to set number of votes - 4 months ago
I'm imagining a user interface something like del.icio.us or SlimTimer, where users could click on an existing tag to vote it up (/ add those tags for themselves), or could type to add new tags...
It might be a bit overkill (hope not), but it sure would be cool! :)
Also, list all possibly RELATED suggestions in the right column based on like tags...?
1 Allow categorization of suggestions - 4 months ago
I agree! Often you'll end up with 2 suggestions that are RELATED (but not DUPLICATES) and it would be nice if they could be grouped together.
I personally think categories (choose from list created by admin) and tags are distinct enough features that we could have BOTH of them, but I'd probly be most excited about TAGS, because tags let you add MULTIPLE tags and let the average user have more say.
1 Allow categorization of suggestions - 4 months ago
See also: "Let users edit/delete own suggests as long as no votes yet" https://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/6357
1 edit your own feedback after it's saved - 4 months ago
Related: You should also be able to edit/delete your own comments that you post on other people's suggestions. (See "edit your own feedback after it's saved" <https://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/3421>)
1 Let users edit/delete own suggests as long as no votes yet - 4 months ago
Also, since it can be at times ambiguous whether A is a dup of B or B is a dup of A, it is helpful to have the duplicate-flagging feature more transparent so the owners of both A and B
1. are AWARE that their suggestion is at risk of being deleted, give them a chance to DO something before it disappears w/o warning
2. could talk to each other, agree which version is better, and move comments there
0 Improve mark-as-duplicate feature - 4 months ago
Unfortunately, there is no way to flag a suggestion as a duplicate from the suggestion detail view -- after reading the comment, one would have to press "Back" to go back to the list view and mark it THERE. More likely though if there is a link to the CORRECT suggestion, users will simply follow link and neglect to go back and by flag it as a duplicate.
Therefore, please add this to detail view!
0 Improve mark-as-duplicate feature - 4 months ago
Currently, it's much more satisfying to simply post as a comment: "Duplicate of http://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/2322"!! Then you get immediate gratification, and it actually shows up for other users which is helpful in 2 ways:
(1) directs them to the CORRECT suggestion, so that they don't waste their time voting for a duplicate.
(2) encourages THEM to mark this suggestion as a dup too!
0 Improve mark-as-duplicate feature - 4 months ago
I like your idea, amessinger. I sure find it stifling to only have 8 votes to use and then to be prevented from voting on anything new without removing one's original votes. You could be WAITING FOR MONTHS to get those votes back if the developers are slow (and don't open their source up so you can help speed them along)!
I think if this is added, though, admins should have option to to disable.
0 Time-based vote regeneration for users - 4 months ago
Duplicate of http://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/2322 . And please don't limit the ability to just admins: harness the wisdom of the crowds, for crying out loud, and let all users add/suggest tags!
0 Add categories - 4 months ago
And thanks for changing the behavior so it doesn't delete... :)
0 when vote count reaches zero, suggestion is marked duplicate - 4 months ago
Also, please delete or change official response, as it shows up in the suggestion list and contradicts the response you gave in your last post (which for some reason is not marked as official response?).
0 when vote count reaches zero, suggestion is marked duplicate - 4 months ago
IMHO the reason a suggestion should not be deleted when its vote count goes to zero is that an intelligent person with good ideas may want to CREATE more suggestions than one has votes to create. By creating a suggestion and then changing one's vote from 1 to 0, it allows me to be useful and create good suggestions that will show up for other people to vote up while keeping my own votes elsewhere.
0 when vote count reaches zero, suggestion is marked duplicate - 4 months ago
Related idea: Show # of - votes in addition to sum.
Many sites (newegg, amazon, ...) have done this successfully. I like to see "product X has 20 - reviews and 30 + ones" better than just "+10".
Might be too cluttered to show # of -'s in search results, but definitely on suggestion DETAIL page, could show it attractively below vote total... Even a full histogram like amazon does...
0 allow negative votes? - 4 months ago
2. Allow bad suggestions to be voted DOWN (negative votes <https://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/176>). So when a new user comes to the list and sees that the #1 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...
1 Make it easier for newer suggestions to rise in popularity - 4 months ago
DO NOT vote for this suggestion. Vote for https://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/6356 instead. I wish I could have just DELETED this suggestion 3 seconds after creating it, but unfortunately that's not an option yet.... See https://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/6357 :)
0 Make it easier for newer suggestions to rise in popularity - 4 months ago
Sounds reasonable to me... Although I'm not an admin, so I've never even seen the option to delete anything.
0 Keep deleted items in a list, especially auto deleted ones - 4 months ago
(The original suggester shouldn't be overly rewarded for voting on their own suggestion, so only start rewarding for recent vote activity when OTHER people have voted for it...)
1 Make it easier for newer suggestions to rise in popularity - 4 months ago
Possible solutions:
1. reward RECENT votes/trends/activity/comments: 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").
I'm not saying its RANK should go down simply for not attracting recent votes, just that it doesn't need to be DISPLAYED at top.
1 Make it easier for newer suggestions to rise in popularity - 4 months ago
The ideas at the bottom of the list might 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.
1 Make it easier for newer suggestions to rise in popularity - 4 months ago
As it is, I'm afraid all the suggestions that are on the top of the list (the popular ones), will end up attracting the majority of new (or "transfer") votes. People will likely 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...
1 Make it easier for newer suggestions to rise in popularity - 4 months ago
I suggest that the ordering of the list take into account other factors, including possibly the "freshness"/"staleness" of the suggestion, whether there have been RECENT votes, or even randomness...
1 Make it easier for newer suggestions to rise in popularity - 4 months ago
Marked as duplicate of https://uservoice.uservoice.com/suggestions/6356
0 Make it easier for newer suggestions to rise in popularity - 4 months ago
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...)
1 make the original suggestion community editable - 4 months ago
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)
1 make the original suggestion community editable - 4 months ago
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.
1 make the original suggestion community editable - 4 months ago
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.
1 make the original suggestion community editable - 4 months ago
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...)
1 make the original suggestion community editable - 4 months ago
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!
1 make the original suggestion community editable - 4 months ago
Vermeer, you want just admins to be able to edit descriptions in addition to titles, right?
Lance, why not just change the title of this one to "let admin edit titles and descriptions"? ... rather than creating a new near-duplicate suggestion...
0 let someone fix typos - 4 months ago
Most forums that I've used (f.e., vBulletin on ubuntuforums.org) let you edit your comments after they're posted. Sure, there's a small risk of abuse, but the benefits outweigh those. :)
AT LEAST let us DELETE our comments if we no longer like them; then we could post a second comment that we like better!
1 edit your own feedback after it's saved - 4 months ago
+1
[ I would have titled this "edit your own COMMENTS after their saved" since "feedback" can be somewhat ambiguous, but alas, there's no way for me to edit your title, and it would seem rude for me create a new suggestion with my preferred title and then flag yours as "duplicate"... :) ]
1 edit your own feedback after it's saved - 4 months ago