http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11379/
1) It would give users less ideas to vote on. Currently there's thousands of ideas. If we allow users to recall some of their ideas it would be a form of self-regulation, reducing the number of ideas eligible for voting, thereby helping us focus on the good ideas.

2) It would keep a user's score from plummeting indefinitely due to (possibly just one) bad ideas being submitted. Why should your score continue to tumble over the course of weeks and possibly months with people voting your bad idea down? If you concede it is a bad idea, you should be able to 'undo' your mistake.

3) Given the 'protection' afforded users in item 2 (above), users would not be afraid of submitting 'wild' or 'unconventional' ideas which might otherwise damage their overall score. Conventional brainstorming requires that ideas be received in a non-judgemental manner. - the purpose of which is to give people free range to fly any idea that they think might be worth considering. The community might benefit from some of these wilder, riskier ideas.

Maybe their should also be conditions on which ideas can be revoked. Maybe an idea can only be revoked within the first week of it's issue. Maybe only until it reaches a certain number of views or votes. Perhaps if an idea receives a certain number of up votes it cannot be revoked. Etc.

Revoked ideas can remain in the main listing, just with a special icon (similar to the lock icon for closed ideas) indicated it's revoked status. In your dashboard, any up / down votes that idea received will be removed from your score. Also, a new category 'revoked ideas' will list the total number of revoked ideas you have. Your revoked ideas will also remain listed under the 'my ideas' tab, with the aforementioned special icon.

Perhaps the process of revoking an idea will also give the user an opportunity to revise their original idea based on other user's comments.


[80 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #11379


]]> en-us Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:21:42 +0000 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:37:38 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11379/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:14:54 +0000
Recalled ideas are still visible. If you want to 'vote' up an idea that has been recalled, just submit a similar new idea, and reference the original as a duplicate.

Are you worried that this will create some kind of 'idea immunity' and that Brainstorm will suddenly be flooded with wild and crazy ideas? I seriously doubt that would be the case. Who would bother. Their ideas would surely be voted down, labelled 'not an idea', or promptly revoked. Instead of seeing the glass as half-empty, why not see it as half-full? Think of all the ideas that people hold back from submitting because they're too concerned how it might be received. This is a serious hindrance to the process of brainstorming. Instead, we need to focus on creating an environment where people feel safe to toss out any idea they feel is worth hearing.

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I like this idea, there are too many ideas that want to be marked as "closed" (from what I've seen) but either take a while or it never happens (I don't know).

A few users find out their idea is impractical, or found out it was a mistake on their part.

Also agree with other points in this idea.
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