When found a duplicate idea, report that instead of simply voting down and leave a comment about it.

Duplicate ideas shouldn't be voted down. Because similar ideas and their votes should be **merged** and voting down duplicates will corrupt the resulting vote. (Maybe some time in future the merge feature is implemented in Brainstorm, so let's don't corrupt the data.)

I have had trouble logging in lately because of the way CAPTCHA presents the strings. Sometimes a letter is on a line directly underneath another letter. So I don't know if I am to put it to the left or right of the letter it is below, or append it to the end of the string.

Example:

q Q e N tk
f

Should this be? qfQeNtk, qQfeNtk, or qQeNtkf
I can never get the letter CAPTCHAs correct.

I really like the front page displaying the most popular ideas of the day. However, if you know when the busy times of the day/week are, you can guarantee your idea to be a top idea for that day, week, and month because of timing. The votes/time sorting method is catering to timing, even though time is arbitrary.

I propose to modify the sorting method to either replace the current front page, or at least as an option to test out. Instead of the time bonus, I propose a "views" bonus. This would tend to bring ideas with fewer viewers to the front, and cycle through them. Also, ideas you voted on should be removed from the home page (continue to display them in other searches)

so logically: sorting value = [#Votes]/[#Views]

Once the idea gets front page exposure, unless it kept its vote to view ratio high, it would eventually slip its way down the pile and make room for other ideas who did not have such a good chance. It would behave as if a water pump were pumping water to the surface inside a large bucket of water. Only the popular ones would stay at the top. But even the bottom feeders would have their 5 seconds of fame, so long as they gained some amount of initial support.

You would want to make sure that each post kept track of its views by user. So if a user refreshes the page 20 times, it only gets 1 view. And anonymous views should not count, only logged in views. you might also want to make each page of results a little shorter so ideas at the bottom aren't given views which are never actually looked at by the user.

Thanks for listening.

There seem to be a fairly large amount of ideas requesting applications to be added to the repository.

Brasero default setup includes md5sum plug in enabled which makes writing dvd take a very long time and does not let u overburn .
So it should be made optional so that it can be enabled by the people only who need it.
Ubuntu Hardy 8.04

Many times a brainstorm idea is marked as "Done" but I can't figure out where/how the idea was implemented. It would be extremely helpful if there was an explanation that addressed how the idea was implemented at the top of the page. For example.

"The idea has been implemented in the upcoming release of Ubuntu 8.10 in April. To use the new feature, click on System->Administration->New Feature."

Put some code into the source code to view what ideas are viewed already by a Brainstorm' administrator/representative 'cause I can't accept (understand) the "NEW" idea status. It is like "never seen" or "please, stay tuned"... Please, set something like "Last access time" for ideas!

If the rating for an idea falls below -100, it should automatically be deleted, and its author informed.