Please: how soon might this feature be implemented?

Without the ability to follow/watch, it'll be desperately frustrating for me to provide support for organisations …

I don't like the limited nature of votes, to truly sought the wheat from the chaff their needs to be more opportunity to 'like' a suggestions

Suggestions is also a way to bench mark projects and send out relevant information or resources for your readers. It an individual places a negative feed-back they should also explain in what they mean or share factual information from other websites to allow effective choices for the one doing the research. It is very important to keep an eye out on your topics so that we can view and observe if a recommendation is safe to use or needs to be reviewed by the sites project coordinator.

Writing a comment to be able to track the process of a suggestion is just a workaround. Just 'starring' a suggestion and have a view of starred ones sounds helpful for me when cruising through the many suggestions first before spreading the comments/votes.

1. use all ten votes

2. wish to receive notification of updates to any item for which you have not voted.

I see no way to do so :(

Apparently this was moved here:

http://uservoice.uservoice.com/pages/19686-supporter-features/suggestions/35-make-it-possible-to-watch-suggestions

Google's cache has a copy from Nov 29, 2009, at which point it had 294 votes. Where did it go??

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:QlYtYAQVmNoJ:uservoice.uservoice.com/pages/19686-supporter-features/suggestions/35-make-it-possible-to-watch-suggestions+http://uservoice.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/35-make-it-possible-to-star-suggestions&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

This is a great suggestion! Having a way to make a private note (or "bookmark", or "star") for other interesting ideas when you are out of votes would be awesome! Our users would definitely use this.

It would be nice to be able to track new ideas (like say this one) even when you have run out of votes

I've wanted this in the past, and I actually keep a notepad file of UV item links for the site where I'm a mod. But I think the tags/categories suggestion trumps this completely. If you get that done and done well, this becomes _much_ less important. Just find the highest-voted item within the relevant category and that's probably what you were looking for.

Ironic, I need this feature as I don't have enough votes to vote for this suggestion.

What about just drafs?
I mean.... add some "draft ideas" and then publish them later!!

@eckes: it is already possible to have separate UV pages with independent vote pools. e.g. uservoice.uservoice.com has a "general" page and a "languages" page, and you get 10 votes for each

This is important, but I don't have any more votes, so I leave this comment so I can find it later to vote for it when I get some more votes. This would be like a bump then but does anyone wish to view a bunch of bumps? Starring would help. Call it favorites.

I agree with the starring - it is usefull. And I also agree that it is good to limit the number of votes to for people to decide what is most important to them. However this only works well if the number of suggestions is small. Maybe having categories/surveys which independend voute counts would help here. Like "import tools - what format you like".

Limiting the votes seems like a good idea to me. That forces people to be economical in applying votes. The comment about the "Long Tail" is interesting. I'd say that's a feature! Under the current setup you can identify the 20% of features that people are likely to use. The "long tail" can actually play out in time or as more people join, but meanwhile you've got useful features.

I suggest limiting the number of votes you are allowed to assign per idea, but allowing people to vote on as many ideas as they like.

What is the purpose of limiting the votes? We aren't limited in what we can "Digg". The problem with this approach is that you are cutting off the "long tail". The "Long Tail" of people who spend inordinate amounts of time in certain spaces is what powers some many communities. Many others are just lurkers.

That is an awesome idea! Since I don't have enough votes to vote on all of the suggestions I'm interested in...