An idea about ideas....
Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 2:27 pm
Hello fellow ATers,
It seems that with the growing success of AT, we see an ever growing number of good ideas posted on the forums.
Between these, the always-welcome priority surveys, and the tremendous effort of Pyrizzle to reference and index them all in a thread, a huge amount of work is spent on managing the community ideas, and the impact it can have on the development of the game.
So I had an idea. Not about the game, but about ideas.
A petition system. Organized crowd-sourcing of ideas. When someone submit an idea, make sure the idea is well-described in the first post (nice & readable english, fully explained game impacts...), and add it as a re-votable poll with choices like "love it, need more work, hate it". That way, we could see at a glance how popular an idea is. Then, ask users to present their ideas that way for them to have a chance to see it considered (might prevent some from doing it, but guarantees a minimum involvement of the user).
Maybe the forum poll format is not the best, but I couldn't think of anything else without involving more web-related work.
The White House does it (We The People), so why not us ?
What do you think about it ? Should user remain free to brag about anything in any form ? Is mess the best way to keep ideas, like AT, free ? Vote !
It seems that with the growing success of AT, we see an ever growing number of good ideas posted on the forums.
Between these, the always-welcome priority surveys, and the tremendous effort of Pyrizzle to reference and index them all in a thread, a huge amount of work is spent on managing the community ideas, and the impact it can have on the development of the game.
So I had an idea. Not about the game, but about ideas.
A petition system. Organized crowd-sourcing of ideas. When someone submit an idea, make sure the idea is well-described in the first post (nice & readable english, fully explained game impacts...), and add it as a re-votable poll with choices like "love it, need more work, hate it". That way, we could see at a glance how popular an idea is. Then, ask users to present their ideas that way for them to have a chance to see it considered (might prevent some from doing it, but guarantees a minimum involvement of the user).
Maybe the forum poll format is not the best, but I couldn't think of anything else without involving more web-related work.
The White House does it (We The People), so why not us ?
What do you think about it ? Should user remain free to brag about anything in any form ? Is mess the best way to keep ideas, like AT, free ? Vote !