OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

A lot of people have been having the same problem- I would just set it up so that my spam filter catches all of them. Then just erase the spam folder in bulk.

In the future: Always use an email other than your primary address for discussions like this. From experience, long discussions produce A LOT of email.

hey I have tried to fix this too

maybe they want us to get pizzed enough that we let all the e-mail go to the spam file.. and we wont participate in this venue again...but on the bottom of each comments box there is a notification box, un-check that and you wont get any more replies I would think, one never knows

if you go to your profile and click on edit, you can set the notification, I disabled mine and I hope that works

I agree. Also, can you tell us how to remove a comment we foolishly made on a topic that generates a huge amount of repetitious comments. I respect the "birthers" right to state their opinions, but I do not want to get multiple e mails stating those opinions every day. I have gotten thoughtful comments from other topics where I posted comments and I'm afraid that if I filter out messages from Open Government I'll filter out the messages I want to get as well as the ones I don't want. I've tried setting my preferences to digest, but I'm getting comments in real time.

Finally, would it be possible for you to create a category for the people who feel that Barack Obama is not legally qualified to be president. Perhaps giving them their own category (e.g., "Qualifications for Elective Office") would give them a sense that their concerns are being recognized (rather than censored)and would make it easier for those of us who do not share their concerns to concentrate on the issues that we care about.

Sally- that is IMPOSSIBLE- a lot of us have been screaming that to skies lately.

As far as the email thing- none of the remedies mentioned here work- the digest does nothing but send you an extra email on top of all the others, and unchecking the box is just as useless. As far as I can tell there is no way to stop the endless barrage of messages unless you just set them to spam.

If you want to continue in a few conversations- bookmark the ones you want to participate in, and check them periodically for any updates. I've found that to be the most effective for me- going through a hundred emails a day gets old, and I usually give up before I get to the ones I think are actually important.

Another thing is that I can't find a way to opt out if this site altogether- no way to completely remove my account. The brainstorming was officially over about a week ago, and there's no option close the account. I suspect that this was an attempt to thwart abuse by multiple logins, but it has become an annoyance.

Yeti,

Thanks for your sympathy. However, it looks like bothersome e mail won't be a problem much longer after all.

If you look at the Open Government blog, http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/blog/ it appears that the brainstorming phase is over and teh vast majority of what is being said here now is irrelevant.

In fact, I guess everyone is supposed to be moving on to the Open Government Initiatives Discussion Phase at another site. (It would have been nice to mention that at this site.)

After looking at the blog I am frustrated because the issue I cared most about (involving more people in the rule making process) seems not to have moved on. As far as I can tell, the Discussion Phase is primarily about transparency -- as in the government making lots of information readily available to voters -- but little on procedures to educate voters about the info and give them ways to use it to be involved in government.

I always create a new e-mail account for this type of activity! You can have any number of e-mail accounts at g-mail, yahoo, etc.

Nobody in the history of this country was more successful at passing what conservatives will tell you are their key issues. He was not a failure by any stretch of the imagination if you are judging by how much of his party's agenda was achieved.

What did he do to deserve this title?

Biggest tax cuts in history

Biggest cuts in "social" programs

Biggest rollbacks of environmental protections

Most defense spending ever

Biggest rollbacks in business and development regulations

Biggest giveaways of public land for mountaintop mining and timber

Biggest crackdown on civil liberties

Biggest cuts in higher education budgets

Privatization of Military, law enforcement and prison infrastructure

Biggest cuts in Veteran's benefits

Two new ultra right Supreme Court picks

And on and on...

There is nothing this man did that was a failure...if you are judging by whether one advances his party's interests. He was able to accomplish things that conservatives have been whimpering that the dirty "Libtard" congresses of Nixon, Bush I, and Reagan blocked them from doing for 40 years.

Well, the stars lined up for them. They got everything they said would "free capitalism" from the bonds of "big government" to work it's magic.

What did we get?

Worst job creation record since Hoover

Actually LOST jobs over his entire first term

300,000 jobs for his second term

(Jimmy Carter created 10 million jobs in "worst economy in history”)

Millions more people without health insurance

Millions more collecting unemployment from the government

Millions of people’s retirement saving WIPED OUT

Homes worth half what people paid for them

Major decline of respect for US in the world

Continued terrorist attacks on US soil (Anthrax? Snipers?)

Stagnant wages in the midst of inflation in the prices of fuel, food, education and health care resulting in a NET LOSS in the standard of living of the vast majority in this country

Largest gap between rich and poor in this country since the beginning of the Great Depression

It is not George W. Bush's fault and it is not his failure. The fault for the state of this country rests firmly on the POLICIES not the PERSONALITY of GEORGE W BUSH! It is conservative, trickle down, “let business regulate itself” policies that got us where we are.

If we don't acknowledge that then we will repeat this experiment again in the next election. It is important for people to know what they are going to get when they vote for conservatives.

If you make 250,000 a year or more and you want to shut the door to prosperity behind you so you don't need to share your loot then you should vote republican.

But if you are trying to get there, and want policies that help that happen, like a good education and healthcare alternatives so you don't get trapped in a job you hate…even though you have a great idea for a business...then you need to vote for New Deal Liberalism.

New Deal Liberalism is social spending to help you succeed and government regulation to keep powerful corporate interests from rolling right over you and crushing your hopes to line their own pockets the way they did to millions of others in the last 8 years.

kenyan.

oh and previous post bullcrap.

thanks to everyone who attempted to help me in this debacle lol

yea how do i sign out of this crap

Each time you make a comment there is a box at the bottom that says "Notify me via Email...." Uncheck it. So far I have only gotten updates to the ones i have left the check mark on.