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Do not use this method to obtain input, it is a waste of time

Why Is This Idea Important?: Real citizen input and involvement is valuable, but only when all the idle chatter can be filtered.

This website could have been a useful way to get valid ideas, but instead it has been hijacked by a small group of people with too much time and too few values.

The reason government is not always open is because the presence of the noisy few prevents real discussion or decision making. Thus government has to move behind closed doors in just the same way private business does.

This forum would be more useful if it were harder to put ideas in, and required more effort on the part of the submitter.

Submitted by Chris In Issaquah 4 years ago

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  1. No way. I'm as annoyed by the trolls as anyone, but the only way to shut them up would shut us all out. Let 'em rant. No one is listening anyway.

    Also, once in a while an inarticulate person really does have something important to say. A troll in pain is not pretty, but that is no reason to assume that his complaint is invalid.

    PS: Next time around, the format should limit the size of the rants and allow the authors to voluntarily merge similar items.

    And it should allow me to unsubscribe from the annoying ones.

    4 years ago
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  2. They are being promptly deleted, make sure you flag them as spam.

    4 years ago
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  3. The one before me was not spam.

    It was a short opinion that I disagreed with.

    It should not have been deleted.

    4 years ago
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  4. I'm glad to see it noted by the previous comment - It is not a troll when someone says something that you disagree with in a way that leaves you dead in the waters of debate.

    Some people have a difficult time admitting they're wrong.

    Sure, someone people will say silly things - but a majority of the emotions presented are real when sensibly presented.

    ObamaCO would be foolish to ignore it.

    4 years ago
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  5. Anytime you open up something to the public some jackass will try and ruin it. But closed doors? Thats disgusting, you should be ashamed of yourself. If you made it harder to submit ideas on this site then less people would do it and we would here from a much smaller group of people. Whats democratic about that?

    4 years ago
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