An idea that I think would be good for the next suggestion forum is this:
Let's say I have a suggestion to make.
I make a post on the suggestions thread, posting the suggestion, and the reason for it. Not the priority.
Only then, after I submit the post, when people came to the thread and saw my suggestion, there would be a
vote option below the text I wrote.
People could then vote High, Medium, Low, and None (probably the original poster should be allowed one vote, too).
It would also show, of course, the average priority as it was that point in time, an average resulting from the votes (High - 3, Medium - 2, Low - 1, None - 0).
Preferably, this would be coded so that you didn't have to leave the page in order to vote. Ideally, you would be able to vote in every suggestion in a page, without ever leaving it (this is laziness on my part, perhaps
).
This, although not the easiest thing to code on a forum, I imagine, would solve a couple of problems:
- When programmers came to the thread to check out what people wanted for the game, they wouldn't be looking at how important
I think the implementation of my suggestion is; the would be getting some nice intel on how important
the community feels the implementation is.
- To some extent, this would reduce the need that some (myself included) feel to make posts to second suggestions that they feel are awesome, then reducing the amount of stuff the programmers have to read.
P.S.: Oh crap-- I just realized that Curtis talked about priority polls in his post =X I decided to quote him and post this idea just as a soon as I read his "suggestion" line. Didn't get to the "reason" part, until looking at my post preview...well, anyway...I'll just send this anyway...although I feel that most of you will get the idea by reading what Curtis said.