Limit the number of votes a user gets

Thanks!

Agreed on all comments.  This change would make the voting more meaningful for informing decisions. I doubt I'll use the voting without this.

I just want to give a <thumbsup> to Jamie Burr's comment.. he hit the nail on the head. I would summarize as:

• Each user has a total number of votes they are allocated
• Users can use their votes all on one issue, or spread them out as their priorities dictate
• Votes return to a user once an idea has passed a certain stage
• Some users receive extra votes, but not sure what this would be based on. Possibly:
  • Submission of quality ideas (quality determined by other users upvoting them)
  • Longevity - long time Aha! users should be given more votes
  • Customer size - controversial maybe, but if my company spends a lot on Aha!, at least the Admin users should have a little extra voice IMO

Currently, we lack the ability to really prioritize our tasks, and therefore, you lack the insight into what is most important to your userbase. If you implement this, you get a double-benefit. Everyone wins.

An additional win from limited votes is that once a feature is completed you can give votes back. This re-engages the user and encourages him/her to get into the system and vote again.

Let us set a limit of votes. Allow users to put multiple votes on an idea. Let us decide when to return votes (i.e. I may want to only return them when we set it to planning, as in dev actually started). 

Was about to request this (what I consider to be vital) idea myself and see that it has already been suggested. Votes need to be a limited and valuable resource, otherwise all of our internal users would vote for everything and I would be no closer to knowing which idea is more important. Users should have a quota of votes (set by admin) and they get used up on ideas. They can even vote more than once on an idea if they want to use up their quota on something they consider very valuable. Perhaps allow them to remove their votes from an existing idea and move them to another idea if they change their mind. If an idea gets rejected or approved, they get their votes back to use on something else. I know most of the above has been said before by other commenters, but wanted to lend more weight to this. Really, really important in my world! Treat a vote like cash, and it'll be used more wisely.

Would like to know when is this feature coming....it is required to streamline the inputs that come from the idea users.

Without  this, the voting has no value. Everyone can vote fro everything, and it all becomes equally important. 

Without this imprtant feature, I am likely to use another product

Limiting the number of votes really forces customers to focus on what is REALLY important and therefore shows us as PMs what is RALLY important to our customers.

This is something we see a lot within our organization. Users are voting just to vote and it clouds the actual importance of an idea. We even have users that send out email blasts to get other users to go vote on their idea. It would help tremendously determine which ideas are most important to users if we could limit the amount of votes users get per week.

Our Portal users need this feature implemented as it is seem as very important.

Or give also negative votes :)

Fantastic news that this is Likely to be Implemented.

We've just been reviewing our RFC process, and the *only* reason I wasn't moving towards using the Aha! idea portal was the lack of vote limiting.

Ideally a customer gets X votes to "spend".  They would need to withdraw votes from one thing to add to another.  This would be HUGE and is a deciding factor in our evaluation.

I would like to see that we can set against a User the number of votes they are allowed within a period of time, therefore focusing their minds on selecting Ideas which are really important to them rather than just up voting everything, I also like the idea of being able to add more weight to a vote on certain ideas, so maybe they have a number of credits in some way that can be shared across ideas.

This is the main feature difference between Aha! Ideas and UserVoice. Capped voting limits (configurable by user, since some users may have more weighting than others), multiple votes per idea (one idea may be way more important than another for a user), and automatic collection (ie once an idea has moved beyond the "Needs Review" stage, all the votes on it are put back to the respective users) would be excellent to ensure that the system isn't just spammed and the users have to actually think about which ones they will truly advocate for. Much easier to determine each users "Top 10".

I would like to have this feature.