Business is about competition, right? Anyone up for a little competition? Everyone up for a lot of competition? Create scoring for this site.
Idea Score = Number of solutions offered - (Rank of solution - 1)
Here's how it works. You suggest a problem. There are a total of 15 solutions offered. Your solution is ranked number one by the community. Your Idea Score is fifteen, or 15 - (1-1) = 15. On the same problem, the person with the 10th ranked solution would receive 6 points or 15 - (10 - 1) = 6. Notice, as the total number of solutions offered increases, the highest community ranked idea receives more points. More potential solutions added to the list creates value for the best solution (real life stuff). We all get a vote!
Next way-out cool idea... tally the Idea Scores back to our profiles (and show our rank on the whole site). If I have the "best idea", with the most community support, with the most ideas considered, I should have the highest score of all profiles.
Once in place, use your competitive drive to think your way to the top of the site. Let's work on real big problems and real good solutions.
Remember... Great minds alike think.
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Most of the ideas on this site are of such a diversity that scoring makes little or no sense. The concept that democracy is applicable to creativity is not a very useful idea. Some ideas that appear off the point can frequently change the basic paradigm and stimulate further concepts.
i'm not sure i get it
Like most of the participants of this site, I'm still waiting for the internet to grow up. We've passed the children's book stage (nice pages to look at) and are clearly in adolescence (facebook and hooking up). I think WhyNot? is close to breaking through to maturity (solving problems; the bigger the better). In it's current form, it's just not that much fun or interesting. The idea is not so much to forward democracy, we like to compete (think fantasy sports leagues). But to the response... all the ideas are so different, there is no way to compare this. I disagree, everyday businesses compete with different products to capture your disposable income. The most compelling products win. The site should have a way to keep score (no apologies for messing with your model).You ask but why, I say WhyNot?