# Crowdsourcing Ideas Feature

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/crowdsourcing-ideas-feature/37010
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 21, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/crowdsourcing-ideas-feature/37010 "2015-12-21T15:08:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Tia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tia/32/52297_2.png) [@Tia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tia)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/crowdsourcing-ideas-feature/37010/1 "2015-12-21T15:08:55Z")

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Howdy,  
I’m looking for a feature of idea crowdsourcing  
Something like this:  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/6/565a4b009f13ce5f884b44f8c271f35fb060c994.png)

Is it possible to do something similar with Discourse?

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/crowdsourcing-ideas-feature/37010/2 "2015-12-21T15:54:48Z")

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It’s not part of Discourse core features (_and never will be_) and there’s no plugin I know of that does that. Your best chance would be to create your plugin to add that feature 😉

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### Author: ![strager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@strager](https://meta.discourse.org/u/strager)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/crowdsourcing-ideas-feature/37010/3 "2015-12-21T16:44:42Z")

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A bit of a “dirty” solution, but this may be doable by hijacking the “likes” system… essentially you remove the “Like” button and replace it with a “Vote” button and display the number of likes as votes instead… would take some thought, but the mechanics are pretty much the same thing unless I’m missing something obvious.

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/crowdsourcing-ideas-feature/37010/4 "2015-12-28T13:32:06Z")

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**Update:**

There is a proper spec for this feature here:

> [@Plugin: Feature voting separated from Likes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-feature-voting-separated-from-likes/38772):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Feature to allow uservoice/getsatisfaction suggestions and voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-to-allow-uservoice-getsatisfaction-suggestions-and-voting/19812): “Post likes” and “Feature likes” don’t overlap well. If a company makes a popular Android app, the first person to type up a 70-character long “Make an iOS port” topic could quickly garner 1000 Likes. In this case the number of likes does not accurately reflect the quality of the post nor the user’s community participation. The flip side of this is that [users might reserve their likes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-liking-a-post-too-intimidating/37695). The motivat…

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/crowdsourcing-ideas-feature/37010/5 "2015-12-28T13:32:11Z")

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