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New Politics Website


Any web experts out there? I just started this thing and I'm lookin for some help.

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GabrielDeafBlindPupFamily 11/01/06 - 08:22 pm

I think it is a great site with

some wonderful opportunities.
I created a bunch of yahoogroup sites, my cousin created two freeservers sites, I moderate the www.handicappedpets.net board and am a board member, assisted in the transition from the old www.handicappedpets.com board to the new phbb board. Don't know your site mechanics, but can lend an occasional hand. As you know, with the unborn "PERSON" victim of violence pending legislation, I have my hands full right now with Paternal Consent to Abortion passage. Would love your help on that one. Please visit AndysChild fbo AndyAmendment to SCCODE Title 44, chapter 41, consent.
Maybe you could put this on your site to garner some much-needed attention?
Looking forward...


TheOyster 11/02/06 - 01:26 am

"New kind of politics"

This is not a response of a technical nature but rather one of concept. I'm not grasping clearly the overall purpose of the website. When you say "will give each and every person the ability to build up their own political platform regardless of party or demographic." is it for the purpose of allowing a more diverse group of people the chance to enter into the political area i.e. run for office or form political action groups?? Or is it simply a a way for people to express their various political opinions and comment on the opinions/positions of others in an online forum?

How does the "Submitting Items" category reconcile with the "Political Platform". Do you mean that people might develop their platform by submitting items that support their position? I see the possiblity of the position and platform categories melting together in a way that they become redundant or you end up wth people posting the latest mass email making the rounds.

While the ideas for this may have merit I believe that your initial outlining of it with such a hot-button issue as abortion will swiftly attract one group of people and and deter others from participating. This becomes apparent to me with GDB's offer to help you "on that on". However well-intended, it assumes you, the defacto moderator at this time, hold a particular position on the subject. If participants assume that to be so, on this or any issue, it puts you or any other moderator in an awkward position. The question is do you really want help with content or help with structure?

IF you are looking to attract a variety of opinion and engage in balanced dialogue on the issues I think your example creates a problem and you need to offer an example that demonstrates more dichotomy and illustrates that the site does intend to encourage true dialogue and not hidden agenda building or a one-sided viewpoint.

If you ARE looking to attract people with like positions on most political issues then what you are working toward will likely work well-but I feel what you will end up with is the usual group of people reinforcing each others opinions rather than true dialogue. And here are already plenty of sites out there like that. I depends on your intentions.

GabrielDeafBlindPupFamily 11/02/06 - 06:59 am


We all know Tom's bent when it comes to politics. And there is an opportunity to show not just two view but ALL views.
Now I am an opportunist and will grab whatever method I can to spread the word. My chosen path is one of the hardest things I could have dreamed of. Talk about apathy! My dream of a lethal white aussie rescue simply exploded. The LWAR-C grew a life all it's own. 100 very very active members saving lives all over the country. Andy'sChild has 72 members. Active members? 2. I'll do what I need to do to get the issue out there.
Oh. And I have a lot of experience on boards. Don't matter to me if it doesn't pertain to me, why check out the handicapped link below. I don't have paralyzed, cancerous, amputees, etc. etc. but it is something that calls to me. So I do it for nothing but the reward of helping someone else.


TomUtley 11/02/06 - 12:07 pm

I'm looking...

I'm looking to give everyone equal voice and equal ability to build their own political platform. I'm not looking for people to use this for political action groups, or actual elections, but if they want to, then ok, whatever. I will design the site with a level of fairness that tries to prevent one group or another "taking over."

The basic way the site works with submitted items is that anyone can submit a news article or an issue summary. I just used abortion as an example because it was the first thing that popped into my head. I'll keep running with it though. Let's say someone submitted the issue of abortion along with links to different websites about it. They have the potential to be very one-sided with this. There will be some form of moderation here and I'm not sure yet exactly how that will work. However, everyone on the site will then be able to take that issue submission, then respond with their position on the issue. So, they select that particular item, then write their position, give links to their resources, save it, and now they have the abortion issue as part of their platform along with their personal position on the issue. So even if the initial writeup is biased, the individual's opinion is the main focus here.

Now, there are TONS of issues that go along with abortion. Each one of these can be submitted and have people grab for their profiles. Each one will have a popularity ranking (like Digg.com) but the only way you can make an issue go up in popularity is by actually adding it to your platform (including your opinion.)

In other words, the design of the system will lend itself to general descriptions of issues followed by extremely varying individual positions on those issues. The better an issue submission is, the more people will add it to their profile, and the more visible it will become. What makes a good submission? Well, quality of resources, quality of the description, and hopefully: fairness. This all depends on the user base though, so there may be the need for some micromanagement initially, but I'm not convinced of that being a firm believer in free markets.


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