Side note: The goal of these blogs is not to criticize anybody/ anything. I only want to tell the whole story about the things I think about and thing we could improve on Idea Place. These blogs should be more descriptive than the Ideas descriptions on IP and should help you understand why I suggest things and if it makes sense to implement them or not.
Second part of the blog series (What we could use on Idea Place, part 1) about my suggestions for Idea Place. Also read about the background of Idea Place and my motivation in the blog called Idea Place before, during and after Teched Berlin 2010. I welcome any feedback I can get. Please add your comments here, vote and/or comment on Idea Place. Drop me a mail. Use any way you prefer to talk about things.
The second topic/ category of Idea Place suggestions follows:
Let´s say my suggestion from What we could use on Idea Place, part 1 would be listened and more "names transparency" would be achieved. How could this work like? I would like to see:
Roles definition: at the moment I guess the Idea Place "roles" work like this: there is some kind of binary logic like "privileged" user/ not (yet?) "privileged" user. Or admin/ ordinary user. This is ok, Idea Place is still a BETA and it was not enough time (and money) to have everything implemented. But before the IP could serve as a transparent channel for Ideas we will need something more. At least:
Side note: I already posted this "idea" on Idea Place here: Roles and Moderation. If you like the Idea, support it with your vote and/or comment.
Messages with icons and/or different colored backgrounds for special "messages". I assume a message from an ordinary user would remain with white background, but for example a message telling the interested people that the status of the Ideas has been changed would have a yellow background or something like that.
The naïve example of this "visualization" follows:
I am sure SCN/ IP team plan to deliver integration between existing SCN accounts/ profiles and the ones one can see on Idea Place. This is very natural and SCN people will not make us to maintain another profile. Hope we will not have to wait for this integration for too long and use very RAW IP profiles like mine.
On the other hand it is understandable why we have these extra profiles now: if you open for example my profile, you can see my recent activity, what is very useful (by the way: we could use a filter on the type of Idea Place activity, right? At least I value the ideas submitted by a man more than information what he/she had rated); you can also follow my activity on IP. To integrate these features with current SCN profile would cost too much, so let´s wait a little longer.
The same arguments apply on the points received for IP activity. You can see the "points" received on IP in the IP profile, but cannot see it in the SCN profile (Ideas about the topic: Provide SCN Points for Voting at idea place and Grant SCN Points for released/realized ideas). But we don´t do this for points right? We can wait to have this implemented. I only mention this because I have heard this several times from different people and think there are people who put higher priority on this feature than me.
Conclusion: Since this is about people (who create, vote or "build"/ implement Ideas), I think the mentioned features could help here. Please provide feedback if you thing these things make sense, either here or on Idea Place. Best Regards, Otto
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