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Community Tips For Voting And Rating

We receive our fair share of feedback on ways to improve our voting and rating system. We’re looking at ways to improve this process, but as you can probably tell, we have a million projects on the pipeline! We ask you to be patient, and in the meantime, read this helpful community forum post by Quirkster Clinton Fleener on his method of filtering, rating, and voting on ideas:

I’ve seen a couple of ways Quirksters keep track of the ideas they like (especially when there are hundreds of submissions for name or tagline, etc.).

I will always leave a comment on the ideas I like. Then I later review just the ideas I liked (well, plus other ideas I commented suggestions to though I didn’t especially like the idea) by selecting “my commented on”. The downside is that this is kinda a misuse of the comment function – I think that comments are best used for sharing ideas.

Another way people keep track is to only rate the ideas they like. Then they later review just the ideas they liked by selecting “my rated”. The downside is that this is kinda a misuse of the rating function – Quirky uses the ratings along with the votes to help them decide which idea to use (so I always rate all the ideas).

These methods are certainly not as good as something like a “like” function. But they might help you keep track of ideas until a “like” function is available.