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There's a conceptual flaw in this process

Why Is This Idea Important?: Significant ideas could get lost due to the method of tallying votes.

The goal of having the most popular ideas bubble up to the surface for discussion in the next phase is a good one, but ideas that generate a huge amount of voting could sink to the bottom the way the votes are logged now. If half a million people like an idea and half a million don't then it will show up with zero votes on the balance. Personally I'd like to see the total number of votes displayed too so these ideas could get noticed. It might be worth having a discussion about them too.

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Submitted by longshot9999 4 years ago

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  1. libertyferall

    I agree with you. This voting process makes me nervous, although it appears to be a good idea. I just went through most of the 86 ideas on New Tools and Technologies and found some terrific ideas with low or negative votes. Perhaps the vote could be graphed (like a stock exchange), but I've already received an e-mail asking me to vote on an idea, so already we may be dealing with voting blocks... uggh!

    4 years ago
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  2. jordan.applewhite

    Perhaps the voting algorithms of several other forums and link aggregator communities could be studied. It's fairly complicated to harness the mob intelligence. You can't just use a simple upvote/downvote count. Any statisticians in the house?

    3 years ago
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