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Crowed Tagging
This page is about how site’s users will tag laws. The current focus is on creating a crowd sourcing app that will encourage user votes. The app will encourage the user to tag votes and vote on them. The app will also process all votes to create and update a set of consensus tags.
Out user is a talkbackist. He’s a guy in a boring job, where he sits by the computer and tells the world what he thinks through nrg, ynet, walla, etc. talkbacks and different online forums – such as Tapuz and the marker cafe. Our user is smart. He is sure of it, and as the user is always right, we have to accept that he’s smart.
He logs in to open-knesset’s site and reads the news stream. Sees there’s a new law he hasn’t read about it: he clicks it. reads the law and the tags so far. He’s not happy, it’s a filthy legal code and should be tagged as ‘green’: clicks to comment. Enters his enlightening argument and vote’s green up and development down.
To get the talkbackist really involved (and maybe even worked up ;-)), and boost activity and virality of the site, we need to email a user when additional activity has happened on an item he was involved with. If he voted on an item, or commented on an item, he will now receive mail notifications. He can also receive notifications on items he “Stars” (Just basically a simple star icon next to objects such as MK’s, Laws, etc. which can be enabled/disabled via Ajax).
This is not considered spam, because the user has actively participated on a subject. This indicates that he is interested in the subject, and receiving news/updates on that subject is actually a welcome thing. See how Facebook works for a great example of how that feature keeps bringing users back to Facebook again and again.
Instead of “blindly” subscribing the user via some hidden database table, we just toggle the “Star” for that object for the user. This behavior is more transparent, and it also allows the user to turn off the Star at any time if he no longer wants to get notified on updates to the primary object of interest.