[chrisjleaf]

We differentiate issues and ideas with icons (an umbrella and light bulb respectively). Issues are typically statements of facts regarding problems that people have seen or experienced themselves. These issues are meant to be tied to an idea which solves them and are separated on purpose (problems and solutions don't follow have one-to-one relationships). Ideas play an important role on the site - to provide a call to action to actually solve a problem.

For this reason if a user submits an issue they have a solution for we encourage them to submit the problem and solution separately so other people can contribute other related submissions.