Ideas are promoted in each category based on a formuala of 3 factors. How often it was viewed by different people, an interest rating, and a feasibility rating. So that way the ideas with broad appeal and high feasibility that have been sufficiently viewed rise to the tops of the categories. Something like:
List Priority = (Interest_AVG * w1 + Feasibility_AVG * w2 + #Viewed/#Membership * w3)
Where w is a factor assigned based upon experience. Then sort the list in the category based on the Priority.
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I wonder why the idea submission must be viewed as a contest. One idea may have the germ of something else so that it is not necessarily sufficient within itself but may lead to other concepts. It is the interchange of ideas which I find interesting, not a rating of any particular insight.
sand, I'm not thinking of this as a competition. I was thinking of this from the Investor point of view. You are right, the germ of an idea is important. Especially those ideas that can only be understood by a select few. I would simply like to give those ideas that have the greatest likelihood of being implemented the opportunity to rise to the top in the hopes that someone who is in the position to act upon an idea, has the greatest chance to find those ideas easily.
sand, to address your concern. Perhaps the "sort" of the ideas in a category could be optionally selected based upon "alphabetic", "date submitted", "unread", "originality", "out there", "most popular", "most feasible", "most important", "most promising", "already done", "new spin", ...
Any formula that one can conceive for providing sorted information of single, multiple, or all categories.
The intent is not to hide information, rather to make the information we want to see at the moment readily available.