Voting Influence & Rating Changes

So, I went to the link about earning influence and zero is given for ideas that are game changers, valuable and come from expertise? And, under number 5, there is a blue box that says, “Got a better idea for this project?” and you are supposed to hand it over for feedback and no influence for making it better? THIS IS WHY SO MANY QUIRKS LEFT.
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I hate that there is no alpha list, to help me keep track of what I’ve looked at, so I can pick up where I left off. I hate not knowing how many entries there are, so I can pace myself. Can’t pace when you don’t know how far you need to run! It’s disheartening. I’m not even going to bother to look at any of them. Nothing in it to be creative, or challenging or rewarding to put my best thought and experience into resolving things. Now, everyone is generic and the creative collaboration is dead,
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Whose brilliant idea was it to suck the life out of quirky? Because your nefarious plan worked. You made it cold, generic and like Genius Crowds. Full of stepford people without original thought or gasp, creativity and godforbid, passion. Quirky had passion, not anymore.
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Wow, this about breaks my heart. The whole thing about collaborating from the summit, was ignored or lost. Adding to ideas and following a new branch, to see development zig and zag, y’all killed that too.
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So, working for FREE with our best game changing ideas, being treated like our contributions are shit, being treated like stepford people and asked to work for unknown numbers of hours with no way to know where the end is, and get no positive feedback – this is your idea of fun? Sounds like a horrible job to me.
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Okay, we know you work brutal hours and have passion. Take away your paycheck, make the workday have no end in sight, until it comes and add tasks to the load constantly. Would you do it?
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Sorry, you failed, to listen and communicate and improve the process. You broke it worse.

Pleaseeeeee tell me we did not lose Naming & Taglines
Are they hiding and I missed them?

Im having trouble editing my images (adding and removing). Seems to redirect me to “New Product” page? Any ideas?
Thanks All. looks great!

So, I’m a little confused by this. If you vote for an idea, and it moves into consideration, but is not picked, what exactly do you get influence in? The ideas that do get picked, even though you didn’t vote for them?

This is incredibly unfair for the first ideas submited, those will never gather enough votes to make it to “under consideration”. Why would they? they will be looked at far less than the newer ideas, how long can you scroll down looking at ideas before you get tired, and you wont scroll all the way down next time either. You need to add an “Oldest” so people can start from the other way around as well. I should have spent those $10 in a sixpack.

Personally, I like what I see so far. It takes the edge out of feeling like submitted ideas are thrown in the trash each week. I like it.

I like the new process. But I don’t like the fact that this weeks top five got shafted like me I had more votes then the ones that made it and I don’t believe this is fair . Quirky could of told people that this was gonna happen now . Top five this week should of remained then change the process . Thanks quirky !

I guess i was spoiled by the old way, it took me a long time to find my idea on the scrolling list, at least before i could let some of the other Quirks that i have come to know and tell them how to reference my idea so they could look at it, Now i had a hard time finding it. Also notice that the first 5 or so have allot of votes but as you scroll down and the computer slows down there are less chances for other to see my idea. I will give it a try but I must say having the pages made it easier to deal with.

I agree with amp, Justin and all the others yet to comment. How does it work? What happened to the categories-there are some items I am not interested in and have to look at everything. When I actually do decide to vote, I hit the back button and have to scroll thru a bunch I already looked at to get back where I was. Makes you not want to vote for it is very time consuming. And what about editing? My diagrams are shown in reverse order, so the picture you see has no sense as to the actual idea. Thanks for what I have no idea, but you got my vote-my vote to leave it to the people that can figure it out. Did Facebook talk you into making stupid changes that piss people off and chase them away? Well, it’s working as planned then.

These changes definitely have pros and cons. This new format is difficult to organize. There needs to be an ability to weed out invention submission we have already reviewed and declined on. There was a filter option which made it easier to load submissions we hadn’t viewed before integrated in the previous format.

It was mentioned in the blog article that the ratings option was taking a vacation and would return. Please do reintegrate this option with a filter that offers the ability to display submissions which we haven’t rated. It becomes too disorganized to have to reload the hundreds and soon to be thousands of invention submissions every time we have to navigate or refresh. Thanks. Brian Schamp

There’s a glitch with your INVENT submission page… can’t submit new items…

The new format is taking forever to load. In fact I have yet to have a page “complete” loading.

Was the desire of this new process to create a greater influence lottery than before?!

I mean, now you have a list of unknown size that is constantly having ideas added and removed, PLUS the entries themselves can change at will. From this list, you must know vote on entries (which might change completely at any point) BEFORE they are magically plucked from the list by Quirky to the next list. You don’t know if you’ve missed good ideas because you have no idea how large the list is or how many entries have been added, nor do you know when an idea will be ‘plucked’ from the list. Will a staff idea just go immediately to ‘Under Consideration’ and skip this whole influence phase? Can this new voting scheme be manipulated by people with large social networks that can communicate when their idea is placed in the list, and how to find it? (Since the list is surely going to be very large as the weekly rounds already are) This process hardly seems like an improvement.

Moving items from a giant pool to a smaller pool that can be more easily managed makes sense, but if I can earn no influence from this smaller pool then I have no incentive to provide feedback or care about it at all. At some point Quirky will select products from it, using a bunch of criteria I have no information on (Marketing input, retail partner feedback, perceived manufacturing viability, and your design teams confidence they can design it). So it’s not really any different than the weekly top 5

This system still lacks away for the community to filter out the 1000 poor ideas to find the 10 good ones and then work to improve those 10 good ones to find 1 worth doing. We are still left hoping we find the 1 good one in the massive list only now you’ve removed the timelines. Now it’s a race to find it before Quirky staff does.

Please incorporate a way for me to track the # of Ideas I have viewed so I know where to pick up again. Inside each idea should be a next button so I can keep going instead of back out and scrolling through hundreds of ideas to find where I was again.

Hello everyone, hope you’re having a great day.
Is there an easy way to get to the forum section so I can tell what my ‘Final Score’ means in relationship to the overall process?
My idea got 158 votes but raked a 19 for final score in My Ideas Submitted section. What does that mean?

The design of the new system has a nice, updated look that I”m really liking!

I do agree with the other comments that the long, single-page list can be unmanageable especially since all ideas can now stay in for 30 days, and will keep growing larger.

As the page continually loads more and more idea submissions, I notice that it can really bog down some web browsers and typing in a comment box becomes painfully SLOW… please have your IT staff look into this.

A few suggestions…

1. Shouldn’t there be a tab for “ALL” so if you are viewing the “Most Active” and you want to switch back to see all ideas?

2. Display the Total Number of Ideas Returned for the topic or category you are viewing, so you know how much further to reach the end (or a visual progress bar… anything to help).

3. Have a “Thumbs-Up” / “Thumbs-Down” or another way to HIDE or MINIMIZE ideas that you are not interested in. This will make the list smaller and more manageable.

Keep the improvements coming Quirky… it’s an exciting time to be a member!

i cant figure out why we need the ratings.

I hope the ratings come back SOON – to be honest, I’m back after quite a long time away because so many of the suggestions going to the store were quite frankly bad (none of the ones I disliked have made it to ship yet) and I really miss having the ability to break down what it is that’s wrong with a product on those factors.

I also really wish we could go back to having those windows for submission, where everything was posted at the same time and got reviewed on the same schedule. I hate having the list constantly refreshing, and it makes it so hard to pick out the good ones when there’re always new things to distract me.

Similar to the notion of knowing how many I’ve reviewed, so I know where to pick up the list: When not have a way to “pass” or “hide” and item so that it does not appear in my “to be reviewed” list…