Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System

GMonkeyLouie writes "The website for President-elect Obama's transition team, Change.gov, has unveiled a section called Open for Questions, which lets users submit questions and vote them up or down, in an effort to let the collaborative mind produce the questions that are the most important to the American populace (or at least the web-savvy portion). The page is powered by Google Moderator. It was unveiled yesterday, and CNet reports that when they went to post last night, '159,890 had voted on 1,986 questions from 3,255 people.'"

Ahh, true democracy

[brian0918]

The republic be damned. This is true democracy in action: decision-by-mob!

Re:My name is Barack Hussein Obama...

[Anonymous Coward]

My name is Luke Skywalker and I approve this message. ADMIRAL ACKBAR!

Re:I've got a question?

[hansraj]

You might want to rethink your usage of a question mark though?

Shill?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder how much he's paying Filipino kids to vote up topics he wants answered and vote down questions he doesn't want to address.

Re:Ahh, true democracy

[Anonymous Coward]

Madness? This is SPARTAAAA!

Re:Ahh, true democracy

[moderatorrater]

I think you might be referring to decision-by-the-mob, which is what happened under the JFK administration.

Re:My name is Barack Hussein Obama...

[JPLemme]

I know you're not really a truther because you spelled "they're" correctly.

Re:Whatever

[greg_barton]

The Republicans are probably not going to have good luck winning elections anytime soon unless they realize people don't care about this bullshit right now, we care about the war and the economy.

No! That violin on the deck of the Titanic is out of tune, and it fucking pisses me off!!

Finally, Hope

[camperdave]

I was able to sign in with a Canadian postal code instead of a US Zip code. Finally, we non-USians can have our issues with the American government heard.

Re:Whatever

[furiousxgeorge]

Sure, but Obama is separate from corruption.