Sounds like a good plan. I feel like some of these are going to be quick wins for Tesla and the community. Others, while highly desired, are going to be incredibly difficult.
WRT duplication. Good news is that with the list of names attached to each idea it is somewhat straightforward to munge things together and get a more accurate count for duplicate features. The key is to provide the raw data along with the summary so that if you want to dig into what was really meant you would be able to do so. For the next round we can do a lot more coaching on how to stick with categories and during the summary process we can propose and debate what those categories should be. We have to explain to a very diverse audience in a simple and consistent way.
We can do a much better job explaining categories/features/bugs for the next round of voting. I am thinking that we should keep the ideas in the new round of voting until they are implemented. Otherwise, they will just keep getting resubmitted.:smile:
Yes, the challenge is it can become a full time job if you're not careful, and in the current method that is 1000% better than what Tesla seems to be doing on their own (I'm not dissing this great work at all!), we're still not collecting demographics on people voting so Tesla can put some sort of priority on votes from true owners that have purchased or in their view may purchase, vs others just chiming in because they can on mechanisms like these. We also don't collect matching geography from people that vote that will likely be important to Tesla in considering markets they are already in vs where they want to be, as well as where they may want to prioritize some of the requests for any number of marketing reasons, and then ultimately build a cost/benefit analysis for each item... I could sometimes just slip tactical tweaks and enhancements into my former business because I decided to and "owned" those resources within my own organization, vs larger strategic changes that would sometimes have broader visibility, need outside resources, or possibly impact other things where I'd need to justify it to someone. The challenge was some things IMHO were needed to enter or grow new markets in some geos, and the requests by themselves from some of those places (or distinct customer demographic) would have never been prioritized because of their smaller numbers, if I didn't have that geographic and demographic view to go along with the big summary numbers. Tesla does not have unlimited resources, so I suspect will end up wondering what to do with some of this cut's data as they get down into the list. IMHO, and without knowledge of Tesla business, marketing and financial plan detail, at least a few of some of the lower voted items appear awfully important to certain geo or demo-graphics... Tesla has smart people, so hopefully picks up on that.
Best case, and this is really wishful thinking, is Tesla will see what this first cut has provided -- and could provide in a next round with just a little more internal focus -- to establish their own internal priority based on this good work you have spearheaded, and create a more formal cross-representative advisory council like other major brands have, along with a more analytical method to collect input/voting with correlated demographics of the people submitting them, that isn't as subjective and prone to false-positives as using Tweets that has been promoted thus far. I'm at least one real 3Q15 Tesla owner that does not do the Tweetie and Facebook thing, and provided zero input to Elon's former request, but spent considerable time attempting to provide meaningful thought and input to the structure you've provided for us.
One of the other things we have to consider here is people voting will become disenchanted if "their own" top priorities are not acted upon in some near term. It's just the way many people are. I personally don't expect Tesla to formally respond to what has been put together, but that isn't going to stop people from grousing either, once the summary is out and a 7.1 comes out that does not include every little request people have made.
It makes me wonder to what degree round two, then round three of this gets as much attention ... especially if done too often... E.g. Quarterly may well be too often since were doing this with no visibility to Tesla's internal priorities and turnaround until we happen to see some feature change in a future software release weeks or months from now... As has been said, Tesla/Elon has been very focused on Autopilot and such -- lets hope they get back to more pririotization of some of the not-as-sexy, but really usable things such as Media Player and other enhancement that just catch up to the competition and make our MS more usable in their current form. As has also been said, many of the items being suggested are absolutely transportable to M3. Time to just balance out usability with new functionality, even if usability does not get quite the press things like Autopilot do.
