You should NOT be able to make a Shotcut software suggestion if that is your very first post on the forum. You should need to accumulate at least 5 posts before you can suggest a functionality. Similar to some Reddit posts where you would first need to gain karma points before you can make a post.
Most of those suggestions derive from people who never even took the time to research or play around the tool first. They literally downloaded and installed then next move is post a suggestion…“this button should be on the left because I can’t find it.”
I can limit a category to something called a trust level. New members are at trust level 0. You need to be at trust level 2 to edit in the #docs category. Currently, trust level 1 requires:
It is working; there are different ways to achieve trust level 1. I do not have total control over that logic, and neither do I want to be onerous. To be honest, I created the suggestions category mainly so I could more easily ignore those posts.
It is easy for Dan and I to recategorize those. Feel free to flag any that I don’t notice.
If you are interested/motivated to extract value from those suggestion posts, there is often opportunity to engage the new user and try to find out their specific use case. They might suggest “Please add feature X like program Y has”. But if you ask what specifically they need to accomplish, we might find out that they only need a subset of the feature. Or the goal can be accomplished some other way.
As a developer, I often value these “use case” conversations because it helps me understand what the real needs are.