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Let us rate Ideas on a scale of 1-10 instead of just up/down.

190 points posted to IdeaStorm by jmxz Apr 24

Most of the Ideas on IdeaStorm are good. Few are great. So very often I find myself reading an idea and thinking "yeah, that's kinda good and it'd be nice if Dell did this; but I sure hope it wouldn't distract them from the even better ideas".

Rather than just voting up or down and idea, how about change the voting system so everyone can rate an idea from 1-10.

winoffice
Apr 24		 Or -1 through -10, if we disagree. So it should actually be -10 through +10.
stormrider451
Apr 24		 Sorry.. I demoted because I like the demote/promote style we have here. A neutral option and the ability to change one's mind on a vote are the changes Id like to see.. I think the demote/promote style is very straight forward and I like it.
phubert
Apr 25		 Looks like a dup, jmxz...
phubert
Apr 25		 I'm voting for it only because I'd like to see some MOVEMENT on site suggestions... I'm really more in stormrider451's corner, tho...
jmxz
Apr 25		 cool.

admins: feel free to merge if you can find the other one.
phubert
Apr 25		 I thought I had one... but it was likely merged with something else... However, I'm afraid I can't always fathom the logic the mods use to determine that submissions ARE dups! From my perspective more than a few of them have been a real reach!
jmxz
Apr 25		 I'm mostly trying to think of how to differentiate between all the ' that's kinda cool' vs the "wow, I'd buy one today" ideas.

Hmm. if that's my goal perhaps a better idea would be "let us vote more strongly by placing pre-orders. For example :If Dell offered product X in 30 days, I'll get one and here's my down payment to prove it".
phubert
Apr 25		 In a sense, though, sales and IdeaStorm are Apples and Oranges... or maybe Apples and rocks...
jmxz
Apr 25		 Yeah - that's why I didn't submit that idea yet. I can't place a pre-order on "change how we vote on ideastorm" :-).
wheelie
Apr 26		 The simple promote-demote is good for people like me, who would waste way too much time thinking about a score otherwise! I think it all probably all averages out to some extent in the end, if enough people view the posts, as weak positive or negative opinions would translate to people just not voting. I don’t think a neutral option would have a function (it would just lock you out of voting if you did form a positive or negative opinion later, in the current format); however I don’t see any reason not to allow change-of-mind.
stormrider451
Apr 26		 I agree..I wouldnt make up my mind about what score to give.. :\
phubert
Apr 28		 Which comes back to: Give us the ability to CHANGE our vote!

Too many of us have hit the wrong button accidentally.

Too many of us CHANGE OUR MIND after reading comments.
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