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An even easier site-cleanup idea for Jokes, Dupes, etc.

170 points posted to IdeaStorm by jmxz 06/15/07

Would this be an easier way to clean up ideastorm.

1. Have a mode that hides Ideas with negative votes.
2. Add a link to put you into a mode that lets you see Ideas with negative votes.
3. Make the default to hide the negative-voted ideas; so execs and normal users aren't subjected to them.
4. Encourage people to vote down dupes; and let people change their votes so longtime users can re-vote down dupes that they didn't notice were dupes the first time.

For any normal user not clicking on the "also show bad ideas" feature, IdeaStorm would be reasonably clean. Dell_admin* and Dell execs could focus on only ideas voted up. People who have an Idea voted negatively can't complain about censorship; and have the option of lobbying elsewhere (slashdot, digg, msn forums) to getting their bad idea back into positive territory if they want people to see it.

mistern
06/15/07		 Negative threshold should be -100.
badblood
06/15/07		 too complicated, voting down duplicates will scew the results for Dell to measure popularity (better not to vote for duplicates), hiding negative voted ideas promotes mainstream conformity and does not encourage innovation.

jmxz there are no real 'bad ideas' as you phrase it.
jorge
06/15/07		 Then you have the issue of accidental votes which even dell_admin1 admitted to doing and supposedly fixing at some un-specified date/time/millennium.
jorge
06/15/07		 Positive threshold (from history) +100000 and then only considered.
reg
06/17/07		 So, if this is voted negative I wont have to see it anymore and all the other ideas come back?
jorge
06/17/07		 yup
 
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