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Cool .. what challenges do you see? I think getting the flow right can be a little tricky. Let me know if you have any ideas on how to do this right. Once I ha

• jcnnghm 17y ago
  In my view, a good idea is generally the merging of one or more crappy ideas and so-so ideas into something that's workable. Because of this, I think you need to provide some mechanism for the cream to rise to the top. For the use case I'm envisioning, sharing ideas with a small number of users, I don't think a traditional voting system would work. I think this could be an interesting space to employ some sort of visualization. I'm thinking something like http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/papers/lowndes/lowndes-fig2-400px.gif http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/papers/lowndes/lowndes-fig2-... for ideas. Technically, I'd want something like this to be real time, shouldn't be too hard with ajax. There would also probably need to be supporting collaboration features, like chat.
  • umbrae 17y ago
    jcnnghm, you should check out Kindling. (Disclaimer, I'm the founder - but I still find this problem very interesting.) What we've done is provided each user with a set number of votes - by default 10 per room - and each user can put as many votes into one idea as they'd like. This forces them to make hard choices about which ideas are the most valuable to them. This economy of votes has worked out surprisingly well for us in practice, and people become very thoughtful about how many votes they want to expend on an idea. I'd be curious your thoughts.