Comments on: Help Us Decide: Threshold & Product Aging

By: It’s Been Decided: We Will Remain Undecided (for now) « a quirky blog

It’s Been Decided: We Will Remain Undecided (for now) « a quirky blog — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:11:07 +0000

[...] you all for your contributions and thought starters to the threshold aging question over at the forum. It has been both challenging & humbling to try and keep up with you [...]

By: sunspotsbonaire

sunspotsbonaire — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:28:19 +0000

Definitely go with a threshold. The site is getting cluttered and there are too many things gong on. As a result users need to spend too much time (and too many clicks) to get through the lists. I know that I start to drop off after a couple of clicks and never get to the end of some of the lists. Option #1 sounds best to me.

By: Marc Zech

Marc Zech — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:35:53 +0000

Maybe ideas could get tweaked after a while. eG i think the cable caps could do better if the design was switch towards a more “grown up” appeal. maybe. i m biased on that one tho.

anyhow quirky should avoid to get clogged by to many unmoving stuff.

By: Scholen

Scholen — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:10:53 +0000

I am curious to know if you guys are tracking the users of the site as far as retention? Maybe you can use this to gauge the viability of a product as well, meaning, if a product gets to the store, if after a deadline, those involved in influencing the product have dropped off, then you know you didn’t have a product in serious contention? Not sure if there is a relationship there.

Honestly, anyone with enough clout to get a mob to come in and vote for a product could get it to the store. If then, they all drop like flies because they are not really there to develop a serious product, (just help out someone they know) you’ll have another indication of the seriousness of it. Assuming this is possible…I once saw someone with a large twtiter following ask their followers to go vote for his submission.

Another thought, I would image that the community is an evolving conglomeration of different likes and dislikes, ie, if for one season, you had 85% of users who loved PC based products, but the next season of community individuals liked MACs, you would have a hard time selling the PC based products. Make sense?

I think you can combine 1 and 2, if a product doesn’t hit threshold in a certain amount of time, it goes on the progressive schedule for an additional time-limit and then to a “graveyard”.