When an idea is posted, it goes into 'Lift and Sift' immediately, so that users may weed it out if spam, offensive or advertising. All genuine ideas then go into the 'All Ideas' list on the Sunday after they are posted. The five ideas most liked by sifters in a particular week, however, go into the 'This Week' ideas for voting for the coming week, before they are moved to the All Ideas list. It is from those five ideas that each weekly top idea comes. Administrators never have, and never will, alter an idea's popularity on this platform. Genuine ideas remain on the site for all time. So, using this platform is a great way for your thoughts to have a potential impact in the world!