Regarding this board or future dialogue boards: a lot of space is taken up by people reposting their issue, or venting about a personal issue, or posting ideas that they have not put much thought into. It's taking a lot of work to wade through the drek in search of thoughtful, national-level proposals, and some very good ideas are being buried.
I'd suggest a strict baseline limit on the number of posts per week. Then, give generous extra "posting credits" to people whose ideas garner support (for example, "in the top 30% of proposals," or "more than 25 votes"). People who really do have multiple great ideas retain basically unrestricted access. People with a few good ideas would be encouraged to polish them up so they are understandable and get votes. And people with bad posting habits or other problems would retain access, but on a limited basis.
Bad postings would not count as a negative, so people would be encouraged to improve, instead of being discouraged from participating.
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Because this brainstorming process is only about a week long and ends today it would be difficult to do as you suggest. A discussion phase and an implementation phase will follow as described above.
Azaleahs; please read a bit more carefully. It says, "Regarding this board OR FUTURE DIALOGUE BOARDS."
But it does say this board. I also don't agree with the idea os setting any kind of limits when brainstorming. Also in any system that talks of open government what you are suggesting closes it for certain people.
I'd rather see a limitation on the number of words in the description and the ability to edit the title and comments as well as the idea.
I'm not talking about making comments. I'm talking about people who keep re-posting the same idea, or an idea that has already been posted, because they are too lazy or two busy to look through previous posts. There's a lot of hair tearing and hand wringing over how few people are participating on this site. They were expecting more than 10 times the traffic. So SOMETHING is turning a lot of people off from participating.
I agree. Too many ideas about ending the war in iraq or national healthcare in a forum about government transparency.