When users submit ideas via email their submission comes in with 0 votes, 0 subscribers. They then do not get any email notifications of comments/updates etc.
This makes it so they have to submit, then go to the portal and vote on it to add themselves as a subscriber for the idea they originally submitted.
i would say adding email body # syntax to kick off many different items
#follow: @username or email@email.com to follow story
#tag: label1, label2, label3
#category: category label
etc. . .