Product Ideas Archiving Policy: Discussion & improvement? I understand PTC's motivation to reduce the clutter in the hopes of focusing on more value added activities, however I think it is unfortunate that we cannot reply, comment and make suggestions on the policy where it was posted (Read only), so will do so here. I hope others will add their feedback here as well. I sincerely hope this updated policy means that PTC has a renewed interest in implementing customer feedback...
It seems to me that the number of votes within a certain time period is an obvious place to start, however there are other factors I would really like to see addressed by PTC that may give it equal or greater importance.
Idea activity
Archiving policy should really account for commenting activity/discussions as well as the number of votes within a certain time period.
For example, there may be lots of comments (and page hits) in the same year that it is decided to be archived, even though there may not be a lot of votes. This activity should