Features should be community-driven. Nest[1] uses a voting system for feature focus. I've mocked-up a system[2] that extends the concept a little further, meldi

Features should be community-driven. Nest[1] uses a voting system for feature focus. I've mocked-up a system[2] that extends the concept a little further, melding abilities from StackExchange, reddit, and Wikipedia. Rather than voting on a single feature (like Nest offers), every idea's benefits and drawbacks are openly discussed in a moderated* fashion. The debate can include a detailed break-down of costs, allowing budgetary information to influence discourse and direction. Also, imagine a hypothesis section wherein guesstimated outcomes are recorded, which can be compared with what actually happened. [1]: https://community.nest.com/community/product-suggestions https://community.nest.com/community/product-suggestions [2]: http://davidjarvis.ca/world-politics/ http://davidjarvis.ca/world-politics/ *Groupthink is mitigated by randomly selecting moderators from the entire population, who are then empowered for a random interval of time. All users are anonymous.