I just wanted to let you know what a terrible, lousy, shoddy site you've endorced, and call your attention personally to the comments that I've posted on the page that links to the terrible site. I will continue to bring this matter to the attention of the poeple that designed this terrible site until they fix it. I would appreciate knowing if you will join the call to fix this thing. I feel sorry for the people who used this tool to supposedly get a message out and learn something. It's a disaster.
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mattlove1
2 days later, and nothing has changed. However, I keep pressing the case for greater democracy, not the top down, filtered chopped and channeled kind:
From: matt love <mattlove1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Please, get it together
To: info@allourideas.org
I got 24 votes on my site for the choice between
The prioritizing Occupy goals page is terrible, should have been recommended by the Daily Bad. It has the same 66 choices it had when ...
and
sample choice
But I would get a lot more if your add choices function worked. As I have a lot of other good choices to present to people, and I want other people to present their good ideas, too (better than "end the inheritance tax" for example, one of the 66 choices over at Brand X occupy site.
I promised my community that I would be persistent in addressing this problem on your website.
Thank you for your immediate attention.
You should be ashamed for recommending that site, it's terrible, should have been recommended by the Daily Bad. It has the same 66 choices it had when I first looked at it - a few good ideas, many trivial ones, a depressing number of bad ones. I suggested 20 more. None of them have appeared. It's not an exercise in democracy, it's an exercise in draining off time (like change.org, and moveon.org) that could be spent productively, in activism.
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Hey Daily Good readers, I recommend that you don't waste your time with that site, go to mine instead:
http://www.allourideas.org/occupypagesucks
I will press the webmaster as many times a day as it takes to make sure the list of ideas is updated, and my page works the way its supposed to. It's clear the people who made the other page don't care.