Merge Redundant Proposals - Increase Votes

I spent an hour or so during downtime at work scanning all of the Feature Proposals. In doing so, I realized that many proposals were redundant, costing a few votes here and there. Here's the list (about 26 redundants):

Prop #'s--------new total--------description-----------------------------------old votes

14/216...............482..........Extra Tattoo Layers......................................466/16
49/202...............298..........Curved/Rounded Prim Edges........................296/2
140/206/237......234..........Voice Chatting.............................................221/11/2
22/133/180........177..........Allow Partner Land Permissions...................155/2/20
98/165...............120..........Create/Edit Animations In-World..................118/2
65/103.................63..........Bring Back Free Dragging..............................56/7
36/37...................69..........Allow More Keys For Control Mapping...........15/54
11/68...................65..........Full Bright Textures Without Emitting Light...53/12
152/189...............31..........Script Limits - Like Prim Limits.......................23/8
153/218...............24..........Increase the Stipend/Allowance...................21/3
79/162.................21..........Text On Prims..............................................19/2
34/203.................26..........Allow Joystick/Alternate Control Inputs........17/9
77/139.................17..........Shared Whiteboards....................................15/2
217/231/245........17..........Change Last Name to Partner's Name.........13/2/2
146/159...............14..........On/Off Option For Object Info.......................2/12
62/63...................14..........Flash/Java/Internet Media On Prims.............11/3
179/184...............13..........Improve Border Crossing Problems..............2/11
131/261.................9..........Outer Space Sims/Regions...........................8/1
59/259...................8..........Fix Texture Warping On Manipulated Prims..6/2
138/149.................6..........Boolean Operations On Prims.......................5/1
116/117/118..........3..........Separate Facial Hair Editor...........................1/1/1

Just to chime in, 62 and 63 are both my own, and the rift between the two was intentional, as they expressed what I felt to be a large difference in scope.

However, I have seen other proposals along the same lines that should be combined with my own (or vice versa).

I'm responsible for two of these myself (202 andd 203). The original proposals had no detail and no links to forum boards to discuss detail further. I thought it was risky to leave them there as they were. If by some miracle they floated to the top and were implemented, there was no telling how the Lindens might have interpreted them.

On the hotline, one of the Lindens (Robin, I think) said overlapping proposals would be combined and duplicates removed. That was supposed to happen Monday. Then again, the GDC contestants were supposed to be announced Tuesday, and that just happened this afternoon. (My team didn't get picked. Wah! )

What I'm worried about is how the descriptions will be handled, i.e. if the descriptions will all be combined into one proposal, or the most complete description will be used, or only the earliest one, or what. I'd like to see all the text and forum links retained, if proposals are combined -- and some seemingly similar proposals were deliberately made separate, as Jeffrey pointed out.

neko