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IdeaStorm home: display NEW ideas, not 'popluar' ideas

150 points posted to IdeaStorm by zanlok Jan 30

The 'popluar' ideas get lots of votes because they have lots of exposure. So, ideas on the popular ideas page just get more popular. As a result, everything else tends to get sidelined. The recent and category links are nice, but those lists are still ordered by posting date.

Blockbuster.com accounts implement the mechanism I suggest: they "recommend" movies to you that you haven't rated. Once you've watched a movie and rated it, that movie isn't in the 'recommended' listing anymore. IdeaStorm should do this - and display a list of ideas on which you have not yet voted. This would be a great way to allow people to easily vote on as many of our different ideas as possible. Category links should do this, too.

Other than being a forum to post your ideas...
IdeaStorm should also be about getting as many votes as possible on our ideas.

james_g
Jan 30		 Up at the top of the post lists you have the option of choosing popular ideas or recent ideas.

James G
Dell Resolution Expert Center
Thank you for posting your ideas, keep them coming!
zanlok
Jan 30		 @james_g: Have you ever used blockbuster site? Sign up for a free trial to get movies in the mail - I recommend the service anyways, but then you'd see an example more what I mean.

Even if I look at the "recent" ideas, I'm still seeing the ones on which I've already voted. I don't care as much about those as I do finding new ideas on which I have not yet voted. Basically, I'd like the IdeaStorm site to spoonfeed ideas to everyone on the home page. The popular thing doesn't serve the interest of non-trendy (ie: non-Ubuntu, non-Red) ideas.

This old link from cosh that I really like: http: // d354310.u39.digiweb.ie/ideastorm/
(EDIT: sadly, the link is now inactive)
jack_satan
Feb 1		 The current method of listing posts is not exclusively based on the number of votes they have received, but rather a hybrid of how many votes, when it was posted, and (I think) the number of comments... I think this is a fair medium to strive for.
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