We just flipped the switch on for response notifications via email.

You’ll receive notifications when:

• Someone replies to your comment
• Someone comments on your suggestion
• You get an official response to your suggestion (not just yet, but soon!)

If you would like to disable these notifications, go to your (newly remodeled!) profile, and select No under Notify me when I receive reply comments.

Otherwise, enjoy!

Attention owners, employees, organizers, representatives,

Claim your suggestion boards!

Just find your suggestion board, or create one, then click the link that looks an awful lot like the above image.

Once we’ve verified that you are who you say you are, you’ll be given exclusive administrative privileges for your suggestion board. Right now, those privileges include:

• marking suggestions as “Done”
• officially responding to suggestions
• bringing on other people (co-workers, peers, etc.) to be admins
• and a whole lot more to come!

After waiting for the coast to clear with behind-the-scenes upgrades, we’re happy to release these new features, and improvements:

Mark suggestions as “Done”!

Instead of relying on a suggestion board’s administrators to close a suggestion that has already been implemented, anybody can mark a suggestion as Done. You’ll notice that the “Done?” button is located on each suggestion’s page. When a person marks a suggestion as Done, a label that says, “1 person says it’s been done,” will be placed on the suggestion. After a number of people have marked the suggestion as “Done”, the Vote button will be replaced with the word “Done”.

Remove your suggestion

Truth is, we all make mistakes. Sometimes you’ll discover that the suggestion you just posted was already submitted, or that it’s suddenly been made irrelevant. Spelling mistakes, ugly formatting — we all deserve a do-over. As long as nobody else has voted for your suggestion, you can go to My History in your Profile and click [Remove] next to the suggestion you would like to delete.

By the way… if, like, one other person votes for your suggestion, and you still want it removed, just contact us.

Real names display for alternative logins

For those of you that login using your Windows Live ID, Yahoo! ID, AOL/AIM screen name, or OpenID, you’ll now be seen on FeVote by your real name! That is, if you set your real name in your Profile. Previously, those that used one of the alternative login methods (aside from AOL/AIM/OpenID) were known as yahoo-########### or liveid-###########, and frankly, it’s not flattering to be credited for suggestions and comments by some randomly-assigned username. Feel free to be identified by what you like to be called. The same goes for people belonging to sites that log you into FeVote automagically. (Yo sites, here’s how to do it.)

Even faster suggestion board creation

This is minor, but we should let you know about it anyway. After you submit the [super easy] form to create a new suggestion board, you’ll be taken straight to the new suggestion board to drop in the first suggestion.