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Provide a way to associate similar ideas/posts

1760 points posted to IdeaStorm by hjwasson 04/26/07

There should be a way to associate many similar posts together. If you page through IdeaStorm, you will find clouds of posts regarding "Please don't kill the Axim," "Fix the search feature," etc.

1. IdeaStorm members should be able to click on "This post seems similar to another post."

2. They can then paste the URL of the similar post(s) and click Okay.

3. There should be an "I agree/disagree" voting function for each URL, similar to the current promote/demote. This would appear on all of the potentially similar posts.

4. Once the agree value reaches a set threshold (say 100 points), the posts become associated.

5. Associated posts get a sub-heading stating "This post is associated with x, y, z" and there should be an aggregate value of all the points earned by the associated posts.**

**This is the heart of the matter - if there was an easy way for Dell (& all of us) to see just how popular a general topic of discussion was, I think you'd be able to spot huge trends that might otherwise get buried because no one individual post got enough posts to rise to the top of the discussion lists.

thebittersea
05/05/07		 ohhh geez, berlin...
rockstonne
05/10/07		 This is so true. I'm new but I was searching for a post relating to the topic of built in mic and cameras before I made a new one. But I couldn't find one. This process would help greatly and make a better impact.
shooters
05/10/07		 If you are interested in helping clear the clutter from IdeaStorm, visit this idea: 67110: An open community solution to categorization.
hjwasson
05/10/07		 Yes, please follow shooters suggestion. cosh has posted a very interesting idea in web interface redesign for the IdeaStorm site, and it deserves your thought (& vote). I consider his idea complimentary rather than in competition to this topic, and my related one:
 http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/66451
shooters
05/13/07		 We found a temporary solution to that --> Go see this idea http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/67268
thebittersea
05/13/07		 Thank you Shooters for doing an incredible job of cleaning up this site.
He should be named Dell_Admin_Daddy
badblood
05/15/07		 Merged Idea originally posted 05/06/07
Stop Duplicating Ideas

...this is a duplicate....
badblood
05/15/07		 Merged Comment originally posted 05/06/07
I don't know about you but the search doesn't work for me at all.
winoffice
05/15/07		 Merged Comment originally posted 05/15/07
So you want Dell to delete your own ideas, especially since you have said yourself that this is a duplicate?

Absurd!
zanlok
Jan 31		 http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/76293

Agree, especially #5 - also show the total vote counts for the idea buckets.
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