Maybe quirky needs a new system for handling so many "name" and "tagline" submissions. Not everybody can illustrate. But everyone thinks they can come up with a clever name or tagline.
The current system makes it hard for people to see all the various permutations of a name or tagline. There's also no easy way for s ... more
Maybe quirky needs a new system for handling so many "name" and "tagline" submissions. Not everybody can illustrate. But everyone thinks they can come up with a clever name or tagline.
The current system makes it hard for people to see all the various permutations of a name or tagline. There's also no easy way for someone to see the most popular 25 so far (or top 20 or top 50 etc)
It's also the same reason, you sometimes get a niche product promoted to development that dies in pre-sales. You get so much division of the vote that a small band of individuals with fringe interests could put a product/name/tagline over just slightly ahead.
The submission and rating period is also so long. It's hard to keep track. If you rate early, you might miss some good ideas that may come later. If you wait toward the end, there are so many submissions, it's like finding a needle in a hay stack.
A good submission can get buried depending on the subset of people who happen to sign in just after it's submitted. The rate of submissions can also affect the visibility of a submission and the length of time it will appear on the front page of most recent submissions. Ideas on page 1 will get more votes than those on page 7.
Also ideas submitted late in the session, even if amazing, will have a hard time to catch up to vote totals of other earlier submissions. It's so hard to compare so many entries without some organized tool(s) that many early raters won't bother to return to check for better ideas. Others return and give up because it is so hard to go through so many.
It would be nice to be able to order the entries by the people's favorites and my favorites, that would order the submissions by the ratings that the community and individual have given for the entries respectively.
You can also have a heat index that shows hot submissions as a function votes or ratings divided by number of vote opportunities. So a recent submission that gets 9 votes out of 20 views/ratings would be much hotter than an early submission that received 36 votes from 2,500 views. The new recent submission would clearly be a hot idea that deserves much visibility head to head with all other hot ideas so that the best ideas would have to compete directly with other good ideas to yield the best possible idea/name/tagline with the widest response rate.
There should be a search function to easily find similar terms, so that one can vote for the permutation that one prefers, not the one most recently submitted and more accessible.
If tries to enter a name or tagline that has already been submitted, the entry is rejected. However the original one is not displayed so that one can rate it and vote for it.
You can also do 2 or more rounds of voting. If you have 250 or more submissions, you can do a second round of voting for the top 25, then a third round with only the top 5 [or top 50 followed by top 10]. You can even do a run-off between the top 2 vote getters.
There are so many ways to improve the system to generate better results that are easier to contribute and reflective of a wider portion of contributors.
Those are my ideas to make quirky better, or to make a better competitive site that will make better products that are more successful than the current system at quirky is generating.
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