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Ideas evolve as they are discussed. It is likely, and desirable, that persuasive arguments result in the change of the votes of the participants. Presently, we cannot change a vote or rescind a vote once cast.
Use Case 1: I successfully lobby my point of view and you want to change your vote from Down to Up on the basis of the discussion.
Use Case 2: The discussion has wandered off-topic and no longer represents something I am interested in. Allow me to rescind my vote and remove my association with the idea.
Use Case 3: A discussion results in the consensus that the idea was a bad one. Allow the participants to kill the idea by reversing their individual votes to Down.
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Detailed report on a particular idea. Give an idea number, get a list of who voted, how they voted, etc.
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Just general brainstorming here:
Internal Benefit
It would be interesting to have a moderator capability to put in a target date of implementation for an idea. Then a report could be ordered by target date.
External Benefit
As an optional feature, it would be neat to expose this "Roadmap" of the future to customers on a panel by panel basis. So it could be turned on or off, but seeing all of the ideas in some type of schedule view would be interesting for customers in some situations.
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It would be nice if ideas that are closed of completed didn't show up in the "recent" tab. Many of our new ideas are getting lost among ideas that are already complete.
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For repeat visitors, it would be helpful to get a list of ideas sorted by the most recent comments. That way you can check in and see what's been said since your last visit.
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I would like to see an "Active" category added to the section with Top Rated, Recent, Review, etc.
The list would be sorted, descending, by the date of the most recent change made to the Idea (new Comments, modification description, Status, or Moderator Comments, etc.)
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The life cycle of an idea includes the concept that one will be phased out eventually if there is no activity and no action is taken (idea cleanup). For example, we plan to manually phase out ideas after 6 months to a year if they are not implemented and no activity (no additional votes/comments, etc.) have taken place during that time frame.
It would be very helpful to either...
a.) Add a time of last activity to an idea for quick reference (i.e. - Last Activity: 6 months and 2 days ago). - OR -
b.) Build some sort of automatic phase out rules. In our use case, we plan on moving ideas that haven't been commented on in the last 6 months or so to an Idle category and then after that they will go to a "Last Chance" category. At the end of this cycle if there is no activity to make them active again they will be closed. All of this is manual and will probably require a fair amount of effort. If this process of phasing out ideas could be automated it could be a big time saver.
Notes: Moderator comments should not impact the time of last activity since you wouldn't want it to reset every time a moderator changed a category or added a moderator comment, etc.
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Provide facility for the user to optionally state their organisation/business name on their profile. This is useful as it can help give some context to the moderator when analysing votes (e..g are there a lot of users from a single institution interested in a specific idea), and it provides customers a bit more context to the discussion.
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I've been playing around with Custom Fields (for consideration in actual implementation) and have found them to be too limited at this point to be practical, especially since I can't control the way they look via CSS. Also, if I make a mistake (or the customer makes a mistake or typo) there is no way to correct it without blowing away (losing) the whole idea. So the moderator really needs to be able to have a way to modify the contents of a custom field.
I know it is just a matter of time before this type of thing is implemented, but since I was testing them I thought I would provide some feedback.
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"Poker Chip Voting" needs to show a breakdown of who voted and how many votes they cast. We have customers using this method now and we can't tell if it is just one person who used all their votes on one idea or if a lot of people voted for an idea. We need to know who is supporting the idea and how much they support it.
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I don't see the login link anymore, was this removed on purpose?
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The Related Topics/Ideas section of one of our IdeaScale sites sre showing multiple duplicates of individual Ideas.
Could this be because this is a new site and there are not a large number of ideas in the system yet?
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Give users the ability to 'abstain' from voting on a particular idea but still show the idea as voted on.
With the vast number of ideas I try to not re-read them, but if there are some that I don't feel strongly about either way I won't vote. Then they still show the vote up or vote down buttons. If there was an option to abstain (think mark as read) that would help me manage Ideascale as a user.
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Need a multi-dimensional reputation system (pluggable) for IdeaScale users.
Here are some patterns:
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/parent.php?pattern=reputation
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I would like to add votes for a new idea in case that I start with ideascale and would like to import ideas and votes from an other plattform.
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Users should be able to post anonymously without their name showing on an idea. This option should also be able to be disabled in the admin.
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The system is great as is, but custom fields would take it to the next level as far as customizing information to suit the organization. Adding custom fields of different types (list, text, number, date, etc.) to the idea would help increase the flexibility.
Properties of the custom fields might include:
* Whether the custom field is required
* Who can see the custom field (moderators or everyone)
* Type of custom field
* Default value of custom field
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I had a great conversation with a client (actually potential) about extending IdeaScale to provide for a costing model for ideas. As is typical with most businesses - feedback and enhancements are not FREE - everything has a cost associated with it. Currently with IdeaScale we are not focusing on capturing either the cost (or value) of any particular idea.
On internal sites, this can be referenced as "Cost Savings" or "Revenue Generation" - Users (both who are posting ideas) as well as voting on them should be able to quantify the cost savings a particular idea will produce.
In some cases, only the idea author may be able to define the cost/value, and in other cases both idea authors as well as voters can define the cost/value for an idea.
One solution to this issue, is to come up with a Numeric (Enter $ Value) Custom Field on IdeaScale and use this as a model for reporting median values etc.
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Would like to have an additional review tab titled "Oldest First" to display in the oposite order from "Recent."
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Thanks for adding the XML data dump (http://ideas.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/21074-3339).
Unfortunately, the dump includes only very basic information about ideas. Some additional data would be very helpful:
-- ideas:
* the "Why Is This Idea Important?" field
* account name of submitter
* anonymized IP address of submitter
* timestamp of submission
* category
* tags
-- idea comments
* account name
* anonymized IP address
* timestamp
* text
-- idea votes
* account name
* anonymized IP address
* up or down
* timestamp
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There have been a lot of changes made to the site lately (most of them positive); which have been initially confusing for users. It would be nice to receive notification of these changes as they occur. Here are just two changes that would have been nice to know about in advance:
Tell us that you made a site admin tab.
Tell us that the login link will no longer be in the upper right hand corner.
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A tag cloud is a great tool for encouraging serendipitous browsing of ideas, and giving users a sense of scope for the concepts covered in whatever tool they are using - it should be a prominent when users come to the system rather than buried under "subscribe".
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It would be nice to be able to have some control over what content goes into the RSS feed. For example, I would rather just have the title/link of the new idea without the "Vote" and "Comment" links as well.
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Have a point system, so a user gets point on submitting an idea, gets a point commenting, etc. This will motivate users and then based on the point system corporates could have a reward based system.
I saw an image in the help section where it had a point system, dont know why it has been disabled now, have attached the image below
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I just noticed this new link (IdeaReport) in the footer section when I was logged in as Moderator. Outstanding! I am more and more impressed over time about the quality and innovation that keeps getting added to IdeaScale.
The default reports are great. Being able to further customize them will be outstanding to fit workflow. A couple thoughts on customization that would be handy...all of which you may already have thought of:
1.) Being able to set parameters for the date ranges (to something other than 30 days, etc.)
2.) Adding Custom field filters into the Custom Reports, etc.
I'm sure there are many more cool possibilities. This really helps with the administration. Keep up the great work!
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