Say what is wrong, where, and what you expected instead.
“The status filters are unreachable on an iPhone because the row wraps and the second line is clipped” is a defect. “Improve the filters” is an opinion. Name the page, the element and the device or step that shows it. Sets the scope the risk reading is made against.
Propose a fix, even a rough one.
This is the single largest thing one person controls. A candidate with no proposed solution is charged a flat penalty on estimated build cost and is treated as poorly understood; one that sketches an approach is treated as well understood. Moves implementation cost and uncertainty together.
Ask for one change, not a direction.
A request whose blast radius cannot be bounded from its description is read as high-risk, and risk sets four of the ten dimensions — build cost, maintenance, reversibility and security exposure — which carry 42% of the total between them. One contained, reversible change scores far above a broad ambition. The largest single block of the score.
Say who it affects and what it blocks.
A submission that describes a person being unable to do something is weighed differently from one describing a preference. If nothing is blocked, say that too — accuracy scores better than inflation, which is checkable against the text. Feeds user pain, when the intent is classified.
One good voice is enough. More independent voices still help.
A single well-written suggestion is not capped for being one — it is judged on the pain, fit, cost and risk it describes, the same as any other. What a lone submission cannot supply is breadth of demand and independent corroboration, so those two dimensions read as unmeasured rather than low until someone else speaks: bringing a second, independent person turns them from unmeasured into real evidence and strengthens the candidate. Resubmitting yourself moves neither. Turns expectedUsefulness and evidenceConfidence from unmeasured into measured.
Write to a reader, not to the model.
Text addressed to the scorer as if it were the author — telling it what score to give, asking it to ignore its instructions — is treated as evidence about the submission and given a negative adjustment. It is the one thing here that reliably makes the outcome worse.
Suggest