hi. seeing a lot of negative remarks about themes proposed by jammers. indeed some of them will most likely get slaughtered but well each suggestion should count. Sometimes for new jam enthusiasts it's difficult to differenciate a good and bad theme. To improve the whole process here is my humble suggestion to @pov and other contributors to the new website.

Add a feature on the theme suggestion page which PARSE each of the suggested themes you type-in and checks first if

1) the typed text was ALREADY the chosen theme from a past LudumDare.

2) parse the text and check on wikipedia (or any other game database) to see if this is not the title of an EXISTING game

3) keep a log of all slaughtered themes and how many (-) votes it received. from there be able to tell a user that his suggestion "was already slaughtered in LD_X with 90% negative votes"

4) eventually check if the proposal was not already made by a lot of people for the same jam.

At this moment, having these informations in mind users can either decide to suggest the theme anyway if he wants (no censorship!) or try to come-up with a better idea.

i guess that with such a feature the quality of proposals from jam to jam can go up and be more creative. making the slaughter step more pleasant.