Challenge pages
Challenge pages show the details about a challenge, and the ideas submitted to it.
Each challenge has its own page where you find all of the information about a challenge; you can learn how to post your own idea and you can see all of the ideas that other people have posted to that challenge. From this page you can go into ideas to comment and vote on them.
Title, statistics, and more
The title identifies the challenge, and is typically a question for you and others to answer. Below the title are statistics about the community of the challenge.
| Count of ideas in the challenge | |
| Count of votes that have been placed in the challenge | |
| Count of comments in the challenge | |
| Count of people are participating in the challenge |
By default the page shows an abridged version of the challenge description (when it is lengthy). To see the complete description, and the see the owners and moderators of the challenge, click More Details. When viewing the details click Close to revert to the short view.
To contribute you own idea, click Post an Idea. See Post an idea for details.
Subscribe to a challenge and it's themes
Stay up to date with the ideas posted in a challenge by subscribing to it. You can either subscribe to the whole challenge, or just the themes you're interested in. Once subscribed, you'll receive an email each time a new idea is posted.
To subscribe to a challenge, click on Subscribe in the top right corner of the challenge page.
If the challenge has themes, the drop down shows your subscription options:
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Entire Challenge — Subscribes to all themes in the challenge.
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Unassigned — Subscribes to ideas that do not have a theme. This option is not available when posting an idea to a theme is mandatory.
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Custom themes — Subscribes only to themes you care about.
You can also manage subscriptions from your profile.
The ideas list
The ideas already in the challenge appear as tiles showing information about each idea. Click an idea's title, image, or description to view the idea.
By default, the ideas shown in a grid. Alternatively, you can switch the view to a listing.
Click Sort by to change the order in which the ideas are listed.
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Latest — The date they were posted, starting with the most recent.
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Most votes — Have received the most votes from the community (highest to lowest).
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Most discussed — How many comments they have received (highest to lowest).
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Random — No specific order.
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Closed — (moderators and admins only) Have been closed.
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Removed — (moderators and admins only) Have been removed form the challenge.
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Pending — (moderators and admins only) Those needing moderator attention.
The challenge administrator configures the sort options available for the challenge.
Searching for an idea
To find a specific idea, use Search to the left of the ideas list. Search finds key words in Idea titles and descriptions; it won't find someone's username or an idea tag.
Filter the ideas list
Filters limited the ideas shown in the list based on the selected criteria..
Challenge themes organize ideas within a challenge; when you post an idea, you can choose to post it into one of the themes. Mouse-over the theme name to see the description of the theme, if any.
Tags are keywords users have added to their ideas. They work like hashtags on X (formerly Twitter) as a way for users to help find related ideas.
Milestones are available when looking at a milestone challenge. Click a milestone to see only ideas in that stage.
Top Contributors
Top Contributors shows you the 5 users who have earned the most points from activity in this challenge. If you want to see more of the leaders, click View Leaderboard. Click a name to see that user's profile.
