Do we have a way to vote users' ideas/enhancements requests?

[Patricio Carranza]

hi, hope you all began 2022 really well!

I was wondering if we currently have some way to vote user's ideas and enhancements requests...

I think these conversations (Google platform) are great, in particular for sharing knowledge, helping each other, now... does it allow for voting ideas/enchantments requests?

The purpose of voting would be to show the development team/product owners what requests are more requested/popular, and ideally influence their scope prioritization...

Regards,

Patricio.

[Dwight Arthur]

At one time, one of the users set up something at Uservoice.com - for a little while it was great but it quickly got stale.

Each user got a bunch of votes (I think, 10?) to allocate among all of the proposed enhancements. The ehancements were listed in order of popularity. As the system aged:

• Existing users allocated their votes among existing ideas and had no votes left to support any new ideas.
• The list of proposals was many pages long, with old, favorite ideas on the first page. New ideas no matter ow good started at the end of the list and did not get many votes because nobody noticed them.
• When one of the proposals was accepted it was supposed to be removed from the list and the votes returned to the users to be allocated to new proposals. This may have happened once or twice but a lot of small proposals got implemented without anyone bothering to remember that there was a uservoice item to be cleared.
• The list of the top ten ideas never changed because of the issues above and people with brilliant new ideas were frustrated at the way new ideas languished at the bottom of the list, so they found other ways to pursue their ideas, like discussing them on this forum, sending requests in to the support email, or joining the beta test team. Once this happened there was no life left in uservoice and it withered away.

-Dwight

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[Stéph]

Thanks Dwight, that's a clear and succinct summary of all the concerns I have about the way Uservoice works (or doesn't work). Microsoft uses it for feedback and ideas as well, and I see the same level of frustration from the people on those Uservoice forums.