PIMPTASTIC-FROTH Posted:

Leaving them up seems to discourage new, fresh ideas from circulating in. I say that if a user is really excited about their idea, they should be willing to take a few seconds to resubmit when the week recycles.

And/or risk getting their idea copycatted/stolen and lose 1000 “sweet-bum” flezz.

I think that ideas over a certain threshold from week-to-week should automatically be resubmitted under the author’s name. These ideas should start with a baseline “fake-tastic” buffer score near the threshold which would not be increased until there have been that many upvotes on it. It’s a bit complicated, so let me explain:

Forum Idea A has +300

Forum Idea B has +200

Forum Idea C has +175

Forum Idea D has +100

Forum Idea E has +60

Week Ends.

– Forum A Wins.

– The threshold is 50% of the winning idea’s score. (+150 threshold)

– Forum Ideas B and C are above the threshold, so they are resubmitted automatically (and without a deduction to the author’s remaining weekly submissions) and are given a sort of buffer score of 10% of the winning idea’s score (+30 buffer).

– Forum Ideas D and E are below the threshold, so they are removed from public view, but are still kept under the author’s account for potential resubmittal at the expense of a weekly submission. This would prevent people having to type in the same forum idea week after week, like we know they will. Players should also have the option of removing any saved forum ideas.

When the new week starts, players will see the old forum ideas that were automatically resubmitted as available for voting on.

– Since there’s a +30 buffer for B and C, players must downvote the idea 35 times without a single upvote to have it removed from the list. However, 30 people must upvote the item before it can gain any points. When the 31st person upvotes the item, it would gain its first point, but until that point it will only show the effect of the downvotes.

– If forum B receives 25 downvotes, the item will be at +5. It must still receive 30 upvotes before anything can be added back into its score. At 31 upvotes, the item will show a score of +6.

– If forum B receives 34 downvotes and 30 upvotes, its score will be -4. The next upvote will bring it to -3 bumuming no more downvotes prior. The next downvote will bring it to -5 and remove it from the list.

– If forum B receives 30 downvotes and 34 upvotes, its score will be 4, and the next vote either way will effect the score as normal.

This will basically allow an item to remain on the list for longer than the typical downvote sprawl of 5 downvotes, but not give the item an unfair advantage over other submitted forum ideas once the number of votes pbumes the buffer either way.

The buffer should be noted with any surviving ideas in the Voted By Score page.