Open Government Dialogue Site Needs Rework
This site over the past few days shows the potential for abuse of any electronic forum. In my opinion, the site should be frozen, with only voting or commenting on posts allowed. Since the brainstorming session was supposed to have ended anyway... A new site should be developed that provides a lot more protection against spamming ideas over and over. There is a lot that one can do with the concept of electronic karma ...more »
This site over the past few days shows the potential for abuse of any electronic forum. In my opinion, the site should be frozen, with only voting or commenting on posts allowed. Since the brainstorming session was supposed to have ended anyway...
A new site should be developed that provides a lot more protection against spamming ideas over and over. There is a lot that one can do with the concept of electronic karma (good actions, which is to say using the site responsibly, on the site give access to functionality, bad actions, electronic spamming, harassment, extreme vulgarity or disrespect, threats, place restrictions to functionality). Also, a more robust account set up. When flagging a post as duplicate / spam / inappropriate, require:
1. A link to another post that is the duplicate. A search form could be provided for this purpose, if it is a duplicate it should be searchable quickly, or a place to past a link could be provided.
2. A link to a few other duplicate posts by the same user in a short period of time to indicate spam.
3. The reason you feel something is inappropriate.
Also, consider breaking out duplicate / spam posting into a seperate section of the site, for instance, create a SPAM and a DUPLICATE category. People are complaining about openness when you remove posts. They have a point. Instead, move them into a seperate section that folks who enjoy that kind of thing can use and verify that yes their postings are still available, but those users who want to use the site as intended can not be harassed (too much... there is some level of harassment that cannot be avoided when attempting to deal with people who like to harasser and annoy others in a respectful manner) by it. It MAY (and I emphasize MAY) prevent some users from spamming posts. At the very least, they can longer claim that they are being censored. It may also clue some people in as to what spamming is and how rude it can be.
This seems like an excellent time to review the posts on how this site and this process in particular can be improved.
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