Hi Jan!
On 10/24/2017 04:19 AM, Jan Kurik wrote:
I am OK with a dedicated badge for every election cycle. However ,instead of using the Nuancier way of claiming badge I would personally prefer having a check box in the election app saying whether a voter would like to receive a badge or not and then get the badge automatically by the voting app, if a voter requested so. It will do the same job and it is IMO more simple solution that Nuancier is using.
I agree, but I wonder how to implement this. We could get a FAS account since the voter has to sign in. But I'm not sure if you could trigger awarding a badge without emitting a fedmsg event from the Elections app after someone voted (possibly compromising anonymity).
It's worth keeping this idea on the table, though. Could you file a new RFE on the Elections app for this to be discussed (whenever someone does have an Elections app hackfest)?
I am not using Reddit nor Twitter and I am a poor user of social media in general. As such it is difficult for me to judge how this will help with the election awareness. Personally I would prefer discussion with nominees on the commblog at pages with interviews. It does not mean I am against the social media use, I just do not know what overhead (moderation, making sure questions are answered, etc.) it brings and whether there will be any measurable benefit.
We could lean on the social media team to help with this too. The one fragile part is consistency, since anyone helping with this is probably coordinating it as a volunteer.
After this election cycle, what if we opened a call for feedback on the election cycle / process? We could ask the wider community then if something like an AMA or Twitter "Q&A hour" is something people want. Since we won't do it this election, we could spend more time doing research first.