So - there's a well known principle in psychology that people behave differently when they are asked "do you like A" "do you like B" - vs. when you say "if you can only have one - which will you pick".
This is an important principle for Agile Product Owners because asking your users "do you support this feature" will essentially provide a popularity score - but tells you nothing about which are the most important features to your user base. Where saying to users "Pick your top 5 from this list, in order" - will give you a VERY different result because now people need to think "Sure I'd like this feature, but if I had to pick, it's not on my top 5". TLDR: the best way to gauge importance (vs popularity) is asking users to force-rank with constraints.
So the idea is to provide Alteryx users on the Maveryx community the ability to select their top 5 features / ideas that they would like to see. This can be done programmatically in a very easy way by looking at the ideas that get more than X votes, and then adding them to the list.
The real benefit of this is that the Product Managers at Alteryx get a very clear sense of the most useful / important features - and perhaps more importantly the Maveryx will say "I made that happen" which creates a real sense of ownership & stickiness in the product among the userbase.
cc: @NicoleJohnson @NicoleJ @JarrodT @SteveA @mbaerend
