Is proving to be a challenge for me, personally.

I'm actually more involved with this race than I am with the Presidential race.

Keeping with that theme, here's the problem we have with the IDEAS page:

In the US, we have FOUR presidential candidates on my PA ballot. (I'm looking at it now.).

But since there are two POPULAR candidates, Obama and McCain -- those are the ones who get the most votes, have the debates and is who the papers talk about.

What about the other two? Well, their ideas are great, but since they're relegated to the back pages of the paper, no one cares.

With that in mind, I'm sorry to say, the best ideas aren't getting the most votes. And I know why.

If you notice, the ones with the most votes are the ones already with the most votes. Now, this SOUNDS logical, but it's happening for a counter-intuitive reason.

Things that are already popular, are getting all the votes, because they're at the top ALREADY.

The DEFAULT view at "Ideas" is called "TOP."

This makes the "race" unfair. There are 73 NEW ideas below TOP.

So they're not getting any attention, because you expressly have to click on "Show the rest -- 73 ideas."

The new / interesting / stuff isn't getting their fare share of the votes -- MOSTLY because they weren't suggested FIRST.

And because they weren't suggested FIRST, they show up LAST. And because they show up LAST, and aren't on TOP, most people aren't voting for them -- because they can't SEE THEM.

I don't know what the solution is. But TOP view is making the entire race UNFAIR and weighting items put in the system FIRST over BETTER ideas which were put in LATER. Not in ALL cases, but at least some.

For instance, these three ideas are clearly BIG DESIRES of people (if they only knew they could vote for them):

() Get Rid of USA only shopping cart ..(not my idea)
() "Add to groups (tags) based on a web-page click" (my idea)
() More usable to international users.. (not my idea)


Again, I love the idea of the IDEAS implementation.

But I'm afraid that the best ideas aren't getting the light they need so people could vote on them.