How about enabling some kind of user voting on suggestions? People might a bit shy about adding “me too” replies.

There is another tool I use whose vendor does this – see

http://feedback.codecollab.com/forums/4652-code-collaborator-features

as an example. Voters have 10 votes which they can apply 1-3 of on any suggestion. This forces people to prioritize what is important to them (rather than everyone voting for everything). You can move your votes and you get them back when a suggestion is implemented. It must give the vendor a very indication of what should be in future releases.

Can this forum support something like that? Otherwise the example above uses uservoice (I guess there are others).

Mark