OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

Brilliant suggestion. Now if you control yourself, no one will have to request that this site 'Suspend users who repeatedly demand suspension of those who repeatedly demand filtering suggestions (because of those Americans who repeatedly call for transparency and a real birth certificate be revealed by Obama).'

*whew!*

It isn't about the ideas, it's about the fact that a handful of users are spamming that idea over and over and over.

This IS a moderated forum, and the moderation policy calls for the removal of spam or duplicate posts. This policy is ineffective at deterring users from simply posting their deleted ideas again.

I understand the Obama birth certificate is important to many people, and it is certainly within your rights to be concerned. However, there needs to be a better way of reducing spam and duplicate posts. Right now there are so many duplicates being posted on this one issue that it's difficult to find ideas on any other topic. Flagging the duplicates for removal just encourages those users who are posting the duplicates to post more.

I respect your right to express concern over these issues that are important to you, but some users are taking it a bit too far and making the forum less useful for the rest of us.

danno, one person's spam is another's free speech.

There should be a filter on this website. No one should be denied the ability to post their ideas and express their thoughts. But whats happening is there is a lot of SPAM on this website. People should be able to Filter out stuff that they dont want to be retrieved when they perform a search, and to eliminate what they perceive as SPAM...I dont see why people have such a problem with this idea...

It's easy enough to scroll. I have no problem here getting to where I want to go. No problem at all.