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An open source system for crowdsourcing creation and analysis of legislature
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Tags/flair for expert users #54

Open fierce-bad-squirrel opened 12 years ago

fierce-bad-squirrel commented 12 years ago

Should we have tags or /r/asksicence-like flair for certain users, such as:

fierce-bad-squirrel commented 12 years ago

Added feature #56 Bill sponsorship for legislators for this question.

OLawD commented 12 years ago

I think besides technical and professional flair we should have some fun and site exclusive ones as well. Unlock able achievements seem to be the rage these days. On May 1, 2012 12:01 PM, "fierce-bad-squirrel" < reply@reply.github.com> wrote:

Should we have tags or /r/asksicence-like flair for certain users, such as:

  • Legislators (federal, state, country, et al.)
  • Regulators
  • Diplomats / Ambassadors / Consuls (with representation & residence)e.g., American ambassador to Canada)
  • Lawyers (with area of expertise)
  • Translators (with languages willing to translate)
  • Lobbyists & PACs (with industries represented)
  • Think-tanks (with area of focus)
  • Political non-profits (e.g., the EFF)
  • Layperson experts (scientists, economists, etc.)
  • Service providers willing to offer services to spread the word about legislation (graphic designers, printers, copywriters, journalists, etc.)
  • ?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/hamstar/legislat0r/issues/54

fierce-bad-squirrel commented 12 years ago

That's a great idea. Kind of like the "trophy case" on reddit?

OLawD commented 12 years ago

yeah, my dusty one. heh

ARMIGER1 commented 12 years ago

I know it's probably implied, but I'm just going to throw it out there just in case - we need some way of verifying that someone who signs up as a government official is who they say they are before they can take a tag. Any suggestions on how to do this in the least-exploitable way possible?

My thought is that perhaps when say, a legislator (I'm using legislators because I have yet to see an actual head of state publicly list their direct contact information - I could be wrong and they could have it out there, but I probably just haven't looked hard enough.) applies for a tag:

  1. They are notified that their account will be locked until they verify their account once the application is submitted, and can only be activated from their publicly listed email address (this could be scraped from say, their site or a database where all this stuff is stored). From here, they may either:

    1a. Submit, thus causing them to jump to step 2. 1b. Cancel, thus ending the application process.

  2. Once it's submitted, the account is locked, and an email is sent out to their publicly listed email address, thus nullifying whatever email address they had listed before to recover their account.
  3. The user clicks the verification link in the email and the account is therefore verified and active again with the new Legislator tag.

If this doesn't sound feasible or secure, I'd love to hear more suggestions on how to go about this.