Thank you for the feedback on the categories and popularity system. I’ll try to incorporate many of your recommendations in the next iteration of those. For categories, it looks like we’ll need to create special ones for Labs since many of the ideas and tests will not fall neatly into the buckets that AddOns currently has. It was almost unanimous that a tag-based organizational system was the way to go. For popularity, I agree with many of the comment but especially with the sentiment that we need more than Yes/No/Bury/Digg around an idea, it needs to have discussion and reasoning. So, I’ll iterate more and present some alternatives as some of you have suggested.

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