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ForceRank - simpler team decision-making

17 points by champion 13y ago

wsul 13y ago
Is there a weighting to how points are assigned? Can this be adjusted? It'd be cool if I could say that the #1 votes get 2X the points as the #2 votes.
- champion 13y ago
  Not yet, although that is something we've heard from at least 1 other person who uses a similar system (that they manually do in Excel)
  - wsul 13y ago
    This will be especially helpful if I want a certain outcome (tweak weightings, recompile, rinse, repeat).. :)
    - jdwyah 13y ago
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system is a great read. We're basically doing a Borda count. Kemeny-Young technique as an upgrade feature? :)
ozh 13y ago
"You can't put a price on good decisions - But we tried anyway" -- nice plans & pricing intro :)
tdowns 13y ago
This is great. Currently my team uses google docs to survey our customers. This works really well because we don't have to organize temporary users or share the results publicly. Am I able to do something similar with ForceRank?
- jdwyah 13y ago
  That would definitely work. For v1, your customers would be able to see each others results. Would that work for you?
  - tdowns 13y ago
    Yeah! I'm sure we can figure out a way. Thanks.
ntoshev 13y ago
So, how does it aggregate rankings? Arrow's theorem says there is basically no good way to do it ;)
asgard1024 13y ago
I thought about something similar, like a combination of wiki and upvoting (like on Hacker News or Stack Overflow). Would be useful to create collaborative priority lists of things. Maybe someone will write something like that.
sachinag 13y ago
The pricing plans are LOL.
gms7777 13y ago
Irrational but honest feedback: There's something about the name that really doesn't mesh with me. I read the headline and had an immediate negative emotional response. ForceRank, to me, just sounds very negative, rigid, and well...forceful, ha. And, to me, at least, it doesn't seem in line with the purpose of the project. That said, I may very well be the only one that felt that way. I don't mean this as criticism of the product itself, as it looks nice. I would just hate for people to pass it up because they're having a negative subconcious response to the name.

17 points by champion 13y ago

wsul 13y ago

Is there a weighting to how points are assigned? Can this be adjusted? It'd be cool if I could say that the #1 votes get 2X the points as the #2 votes.

champion 13y ago
Not yet, although that is something we've heard from at least 1 other person who uses a similar system (that they manually do in Excel)
- wsul 13y ago
  This will be especially helpful if I want a certain outcome (tweak weightings, recompile, rinse, repeat).. :)
  - jdwyah 13y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system is a great read. We're basically doing a Borda count. Kemeny-Young technique as an upgrade feature? :)

ozh 13y ago

"You can't put a price on good decisions - But we tried anyway" -- nice plans & pricing intro :)

tdowns 13y ago

This is great. Currently my team uses google docs to survey our customers. This works really well because we don't have to organize temporary users or share the results publicly. Am I able to do something similar with ForceRank?

jdwyah 13y ago
That would definitely work. For v1, your customers would be able to see each others results. Would that work for you?
- tdowns 13y ago
  Yeah! I'm sure we can figure out a way. Thanks.

ntoshev 13y ago

So, how does it aggregate rankings? Arrow's theorem says there is basically no good way to do it ;)

asgard1024 13y ago

I thought about something similar, like a combination of wiki and upvoting (like on Hacker News or Stack Overflow). Would be useful to create collaborative priority lists of things. Maybe someone will write something like that.

sachinag 13y ago

The pricing plans are LOL.

gms7777 13y ago

Irrational but honest feedback: There's something about the name that really doesn't mesh with me. I read the headline and had an immediate negative emotional response. ForceRank, to me, just sounds very negative, rigid, and well...forceful, ha. And, to me, at least, it doesn't seem in line with the purpose of the project. That said, I may very well be the only one that felt that way. I don't mean this as criticism of the product itself, as it looks nice. I would just hate for people to pass it up because they're having a negative subconcious response to the name.