I recently submitted an idea to change.gov and while it was apparently well-liked - scoring six other votes before it got pushed off the front page despite being submitted to only one category - that's about the end of it.
Unless I try to promote it somehow, no more votes. Someone else thinks it brilliant, of course, perhaps others will too...
But if the best ideas are really going to go to the President, is his team really going to look ten thousand ideas down? A hundred thousand? I wonder, despite the flood of ideas, if we can create a 'rescue program' of sorts for certain ideas submitted to change.gov.
I posted an idea rescue on the site proper, but it does not seem to be taken very well.
I really don't care for good ideas dying because of a poor implementation. Hopefully we can draw enough notice to a few good ideas in order to get at least a few of the better ones some wider notice.
A superior idea might be to gather a much larger list of notable ideas and place them in a specific thread here for us to try and vote up directly en masse.
I know a number of people are rather pessimistic about change.gov in general. The cost of optimism in this case is a small one, however, and it can mean a great deal if a few choice thoughts get noticed by those who actually do make decisions.