Brainstorm type sites that I have used before allow users to rate the ideas themselves, but the current maemo.org implementation appears to only allow rating the solutions. Whilst this is nice to see which solution would be preferred, it does not give a clear indication of which ideas are considered the most useful/important by the community. A further issue with the current system is that if you do not propose a solution to your idea, you can't get any votes at all. Rating of the idea itself should be the most obvious option available to a viewer, and solution ratings should be kept but given less emphasis.
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Add voting for the actual ideas
Posted on 2009-06-22 15:04 UTC by F Random. Status: Implemented, milestone: Fremantle, Categories: maemo.org.
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Solution #1: Add idea rating, only show solution ratings on idea page
Posted on 2009-06-22 15:13 UTC by F Random.
The idea rating would be shown on all pages where the idea is shown, similar to http://www.ideastorm.com/ and http://www.windows7taskforce.com/
The solution ratings would only be shown within the idea page, as the solution only matters to those people who are interested enough in the idea to click on it.
