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I know when I can't win. Let me clean up after myself.
I have an idea at -100, and I'm ready to drop it so as not to clutter brainstorm and all that. I need to be able to mark it as abandoned by author.
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ethana2 wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 03:25
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Somebody voted this idea down. ...Am I missing something?
Please, if I can't have your vote, that's perfectly fine.
...but I want your logic.
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jimmux wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 03:36
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I see no problem with this. I would suggest that it only be possible for ideas with a negative score, though.
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Auzy wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 05:17
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Theres 2 sides to this
1) A massively negative score, and deleting it, lets you essentially give yourself +100 votes when you resubmit it 1 hour after abandoning it
2) However, ideas with -100 probably only get -100 because they are flamebait, or aren't properly written. They may not be bad ideas, they may just not have a fatal flaw in implementation (that may be mentioned by someone in the comments)
I'll award 0 because I think poorly rated ideas should have a second chance. However, I think it should be somewhat automated. If an idea is -100 for 3 months, it should be automatically marked as "automatically retracted" (and there should be still a way of seeing it on the system). However, nothing should be able to be marked a duplicate of it, so that people can safely repost the idea based on feedback of the previous one, so that its more refined, and more likely to succeed.
I've personally seen lots of my ideas get marked as duplicates of others. As a duplicate, they should have gotten equal votes. They didn't (in fact, in cases wildly varying), proving that the way something is written makes a big difference. So like I said, thats why I certainly approve of second chances for ideas!
+1, and have a happy easter
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vildanovak wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 16:20
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I think also because of double posting it shouldn't be possible. Also for the developers, they want to clearly see what users want and don't want and how many of them. The idea doesn't have to be bad, it can be just so that many people don't find it useful. If an idea would get e.g -100, but would have +2000 votes and -2100 votes, it would be quite clear that it SHOULD be implemented as an option for the smaller half of the users.
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ethana2 wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 23:49
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The problem may be that we only have one kind of vote.
What if your idea is interesting, your intentions are good, but you're pathetic at drafting? That's all I can give you is a thumbs up or thumbs down? *sigh*
Auzy, very good points all.
And see, I always feel bad about editing an idea after people have responded to it, because then that's not exactly what they've responded to and stuff..
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ethana2 wrote on the 26 Mar 08 at 00:04
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In the spirit of full disclosure, I think that idea at -100 is a good one to this very minute. It's just killing my net rating. (which no one but me is really even keeping track of)
So basically, it's this:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5182/
versus this:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2674/
With all my other stuff in between. I like to think that ideas are my thing, and that thinking is what I do. It may be that people aren't ready for an idea, or that they want canonical's efforts focused elsewhere, or even something else, I really don't know, but I'd note that with the PS3 idea, I'm not saying its not worth doing-- I'm saying that we'll go it alone, and we've come to terms with that.
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dominik.mayer wrote on the 26 Mar 08 at 07:26
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I think even bad ideas can inspire others so I would rather not delete any. Perhaps it can be implemented to distance oneself from the idea, making it kind of anonymous.
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