Explain the problem as you see it
ideas.tana.inc has become overwhelming and unwieldy. A major contributor is the proliferation of duplicates.
There is a "Consider voting for these similar ideas" but it goes by verbal rather than conceptual similarity.
Why is this a problem for you?
- I can't tell if an idea has already been suggested.
- I can't tell real voter response—a popular idea is more likely to have been suggested multiple times, splitting the vote.
- Browsing the database in general is pretty hopeless.
- Dialog about an idea, which can be very helpful in itself, is split among various incarnations.
Suggest a solution
It used to be prohibitively laborious to identify all the similar ideas, but now we have AI. So I suggest:
- AI-enable the "Consider voting for these similar ideas" function to suggest conceptually similar rather than verbally similar ideas.
- Use AI to do a pass on the current database to identify the same or similar ideas, and propose to the posters of the duplicates to take a look to see if they want to merge, or keep theirs separate.