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I think it is kind of redundant for the person who posted an idea to have to vote for it. I find it unlikely that someone would post and idea that they did not like. Therefore it would probably be good if the person who posts an idea automatically votes for it as well.

Yes, that sounds good! We would check if this can be done.

I think in every election you have the choice to vote for yourself if you're nominated or not to do so. Maybe your idea is so revolutionary that even you self are not sure if it's really a good idea and just want some feedback from others, or you just want to be fair and introduce an idea which you personally don't like but may be useful to others. Maybe you change your view on that idea through the discussion.

Whatever your motivations are: Voting should always be a conscious thing on its own and never be done automatically. To distinguish between nomination and voting is a basic principle to express your opinion in a voting system, and I never want to be forced to vote in any direction, just because I started a discussion.

But for most cases it should be okay.
If you could change your voting, it would be perfect.

Sorry if I contradict again, but I don't think it's a good idea to make it possible to change your vote afterwards in general. IMHO it will reduce the voting system to a temporary poll, devaluating the meaning of a vote, esp. weakening being consequent and to think before you vote. The voting system should give the developers a clear picture what feature is wanted and which not. At least if a developer says, "OK, you want it, you get it!" it's to late to rethink the whole thing and decide it's a maybe not a good idea.

And it makes the numbers even harder to interpret: What does 4 votes mean? 4 votes for it? 8 for and 4 against? 16 for it when the idea was "hip" but -8 when someone made a good point agaibst it, which the remaining 4 simply didn't have seen, because they turned notifications of?

I know that every voting system has it's pros and cons, but making it more complex usually doesn't make it better.

Implemented!
Tagging this as [DONE]

furanku wrote:The voting system should give the developers a clear picture what feature is wanted and which not. At least if a developer says, "OK, you want it, you get it!" it's to late to rethink the whole thing and decide it's a maybe not a good idea.

I dont think creating KDE is as simple as buying a candy, where you could say: "what i've just bought you a candy, and now you dont want it "

The key for brainstorm is discussion, and in some cases this could turn the best idea for the first look into rubbish and vice versa.


Also view count is also important. If people are looking at that idea, this means that at least the title was interesting. Developers are not stupid, and they clear out even the most stupid ideas into boundaries breaking features. Half of the ideas, if they were posted 3-5 years ago would have been marked as WontFix in the best case