Thanks Dwight, that's a clear and succinct summary of all the concerns I have about the way Uservoice works (or doesn't work). Microsoft uses it for feedback and ideas as well, and I see the same level of frustration from the people on those Uservoice forums.
On Monday, 3 January 2022 at 15:45:35 UTC Dwight wrote: > At one time, one of the users set up something at Uservoice.com - for a > little while it was great but it quickly got stale. > > Each user got a bunch of votes (I think, 10?) to allocate among all of the > proposed enhancements. The ehancements were listed in order of popularity. > As the system aged: > > - Existing users allocated their votes among existing ideas and had no > votes left to support any new ideas. > - The list of proposals was many pages long, with old, favorite ideas > on the first page. New ideas no matter ow good started at the end of the > list and did not get many votes because nobody noticed them. > - When one of the proposals was accepted it was supposed to be removed > from the list and the votes returned to the users to be allocated to new > proposals. This may have happened once or twice but a lot of small > proposals got implemented without anyone bothering to remember that there > was a uservoice item to be cleared. > - The list of the top ten ideas never changed because of the issues > above and people with brilliant new ideas were frustrated at the way new > ideas languished at the bottom of the list, so they found other ways to > pursue their ideas, like discussing them on this forum, sending requests > in > to the support email, or joining the beta test team. Once this happened > there was no life left in uservoice and it withered away. > > -Dwight > On 1/2/2022 22:38, Patricio Carranza wrote: > > hi, hope you all began 2022 really well! > > I was wondering if we currently have some way to vote user's ideas and > enhancements requests... > > I think these conversations (Google platform) are great, in particular for > sharing knowledge, helping each other, now... does it allow for voting > ideas/enchantments requests? > > The purpose of voting would be to show the development team/product owners > what requests are more requested/popular, and ideally influence their scope > prioritization... > > Regards, > > Patricio. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/9e7b6869-e2a9-4374-8d9c-cd253a7bbaefn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/9e7b6869-e2a9-4374-8d9c-cd253a7bbaefn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/0a19e5d7-1c27-4089-bd39-7b7dc3d63ef2n%40googlegroups.com.
