More votes for Premium users/buying temporal votes

Premium users should have more votes in the feature suggestion system than normal users.
Alternativly users should be able to "buy" temporal" votes (~ one month) with L$.

Linden Lab is earning its money through premium accounts and land sales, isn't it? And you'd think that people who pay money for something intend to use it - intensivly.
This change in the suggestion system would allow premium users to "customize" SL futher by influencing it's development.

I don't think that premium users should have significant more votes than normal users. I'm thinking of 5 or 10 more votes.

What do you think?

(There is only a proposal for the "premium votes" in the feature voting system.
See proposal 2180 "More votes for premium users"

I don't see why there are votes at all. Wouldn't it be easier if we could rate ideas that we like on a scale of one to ten, then highest rated ideas float to the top of the list. This way you get an idea of how liked an idea is, rather than how popular.

Either that or just let users vote as much as they like, but you can only place one vote per proposal (since people would just assign ten to every idea they like anyway).

That sounds like a wiser idea to me.. then everyone could vote regardless of how many stinkin' votes they could allocate.

Then again, it also introduces the issue of jerks going in and negatively rating every prop just for fun. :/

Indeed. Even just being able to mark "I like this" "I don't care about this" on each proposal (one vote per person per ballot) would be much more useful. LL would have to use something like "the top 10% not yet accepted" rather than an absolute number of votes.
If they negatively rate EVERY proposal their ratings would cancel out.

Well you'll always get idiots that do that, but a genuinely good idea can still get good ratings.
Also, to avoid a new proposal with a single 5 star (or 10, whatever) rating being top proposal, you do something like have two lists, top-rated proposals (the main list), and newest proposals. A proposal only remains on the newest list until it has say...10 votes, at which point it is added to the main list.
To stop people signing up alts just to vote for their own proposal, you can first of all get rid of bloody unverifieds and do it right instead (as per many other threads though it's a big issue for me atm, heh) or you could borrow from newgrounds.com and award higher voting power to people who vote regularly. So someone who just signed up would be worth one vote, but someone who has placed 500 votes might be worth 5 votes. This is in terms of weighting, ie if I (with 5 votes) voted 4/5 on something, it would be as though 5 different people had voted 4/5. Can even have the bonus/modifier based on the deviation of the person's votes, e.g, if someone does nothing but vote 0 then they're not voting fairly, or are only voting on things they hate, so they could get counted less. But someone who gives a whole range of different ratings is more likely to be doing a fair job and considering each proposal with more care.
Maybe have an age limit, ie an account must be at least 30 days old to vote on something, further avoids abuse and also really a proper newbie should at least get a better idea of the game and its workings before supporting changes to it.

The current system has the advantage that is measures a combination of a suggestion's quality and the quantity of it's feedback.
The greatest feature is worthless if nobody wants (uses) it. And nobody will vote for a feature that makes no difference.