Feature ranking

[barryvan (Barry van Oudtshoorn)]

Apologies for reviving a relatively old topic on this.

@codinghorror

doing it in the actual order you placed the votes is quite straightforward … but it is implicit. You need to make sure you vote for the thing you REALLY want first, then the next thing you want a little bit less, and so on.

I don’t believe that this would work in the wild – at least for us. Our Suggestions category is open for new posts – and people come up with new ideas all the time, and then want to vote on them. And you may not have realised just how important something is until someone else suggests it.

@sam

It is pretty clear what the community want in the above list. What is unclear is what “the powers that be” plan to do about these ideas? What is planned? what is rejected? What is the “official” response?

This is something that I’ve tried to address in our community by using tags:

How are you using your Voting category?

The process that I’m using is based around tags and closing the topics. [image] All suggestions are in a suggestions category, and can be voted on there. When we’re planning to do something, I apply the “planned” tag; when it’s underway, I apply the “underway” tag, and when it’s complete, I apply the “complete” tag. Once an item has been completed, I additionally set the topic to automatically close two weeks later, so that people get their votes back. To accommodate feedback on completed it…

This system has worked well (with a few caveats, as I outline in that post). It’d be great to see some of the issues there resolved; to my mind, these are some of the core issues that @sam mentioned that need to be resolved before looking at “nice-to-haves” like multivoting or ranked voting.