Ok, I'll be specific about http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...sign_for_2010/

Solutions 1-8 are all about the specific problem of dealing with different subforums, tags, devices so people can find better the information relevant to their device. Good, this makes sense and the alternative/complementary solutions try to solve a same problem.

Then solutions 9-11 are more about rating signal vs noise. Which is an interesting discussion too. But better in a new brainstorm with separate discussion thread.

Solutions 12, 13 and 14 are all about different topics and unrelated to the previous two topics mentioned above.

Solution 15 might be a good complement helping the goal behind solutions 1-8.

Well, doesn't look like an efficient way to discuss.

And then imagine that https support (solution 12) is under development and implemented one day. The way to communicate this is to move the brainstorm to In Development and then to Implemented. You can select the solutions implemented, sure, but again moving the brainstorm to Implemented when the biggest topic with solutions 1-8 is still open might be again not a good idea.

This is what I'm talking about, and we have the same problem in most of the brainstorm proposals currently in the top 10 of "popularity" at http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/ ("Hot brainstorms"). Then you click on them and you realize that the popularity is due to the fact that they become cul-de-sac of 1001 slightly related ideas.