Improve/Expand Voting options for Ideas

This idea sounds interesting, and usefull.

Hmm. Maybe solution might be that there is a normal vote, as it is at the moment, and Gainsight builds new reactions to the platform.

Reactions would be something like:

• Like
• Critical
• Important
• Nice-to-have 
• And so on

• Add more reactions to topics/comments New Idea
• 15 Votes

With this solution users can add these same reactions to the topics and comments as well. In our community users gives ideas and feedback while they discuss.

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I would not use “Not important” reaction, if something is not important, then user just not vote.

Sorry, there isnt edit button:

I just would like to add that with extended reactions users can vote if there is bug in some product etc. Some bugs are critical, some of them are not.

At first glance, this seemed like a valuable addition to me, but I'm also somewhat skeptical.

I already notice that when a Community member adds an idea, quite often he or she lets the idea circulate within his or her own company to collect internal votes.

This can speak to their level of engagement, but it can also be exploited by customers with many employees to push their ideas forward.

Introducing this expanded voting feature may lead even more to ideas being labeled by default as critical by larger customers, even when they are not, solely to expedite their implementation.

What are your thoughts on this?