Brainstorm Off to a Fast Start, Will it keep up the pace?
Just 3 days since the launch of Ubuntu Brainstorm, the site is already showing an impressive amount of participation. As of right now, the top idea on Brainstorm has an impressive total of 2933 votes up, and that is after subtracting all the down votes. At the rate the numbers are going up now, even if you expect the rate to slow some, the top idea will probably have 4000 or 5000 votes, if not more, by the end of next week. This is particularly impressive when you consider how big a number this is compared to Dell’s IdeaStorm, which Brainstorm was closely based off of.
The idea with the most votes on the front page of IdeaStorm, which has been around for over a year and has Dell behind it, has 134,359 points or votes, which sounds like a lot, except that each person that presses the “promote” or “demote” button changes that number by 10 points, not 1. In other words, the real number of votes up, again after subtracting the down votes, is only 13,436. (Don’t ask me how the 9 on the end of 134,359 got there. I have no idea.) In the end, the real numbers come out to 13,436 votes over an entire year versus 2933 votes over three days. Those numbers are very impressiv, but can Brainstorm keep up the pace or is this just a momentary surge?
