Feature proposal system abandonned?

You keep saying community feedback is important, but at the same time you continue to ignore a _quantifiable_ tool you presented to us exactly for this purpose: The Feature Proposal System.

When the tool was setup it was stated: "Linden Lab has promised to acknowledge any proposal which gets over 500 votes" Yet the last proposal to be even acknowledged it close to three months old. And I have personally watched and not seen a single one acknowledged in at least a month.

Yes, most of us realize some are not possible (for example http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=2338), while others would require a significant change of underlying architecture (http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=806) ... but ALL deserve a response. And some of them are actually quite simple and should be easy to implement.

Here is a list of the ones currently over 500 votes:

http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=1093
http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=2234
http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=806
http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=199
http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=49
http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=1228
http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=2341
http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=1602
http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=2176
http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=2338

(So this doesn't even include the ones that were over 500, but people eventually gave up hope on and reused their votes for something more recent.)

And please don't patronize us by having someone go in there and acknowledge it with a blank statement like "I'll try to find someone to look into this" which is devoid of useful feedback. Get ahold of the appropriate developer and have them post a comment. Get the proposal to them.

It's one thing to ignore customer feedback, but when you asked for it in the first place, and even provided a tool for it... to then ignore everyone for months is incredibly disrepectful.

I agree that we could do a better job with feature voting. Right now our goal is to replace the current system with something that makes it easier to stay current with proprosals. One feature of the replacement system is that the proposal could be assigned, as you suggest, to an engineer who could update it as needed.

We know what software we want to use -- we're working on making sure SL identities can be verified on log-in. Once that's in place then we'll move ahead with implementation.