- Update: The HN traffic exposed a bug I hadn't caught... static caching of user-specific data in Blazor Server was causing session bleed under load. One comment got attributed to the wrong user. I am pushing a fix now, so the site will be down for a few minutes while it deploys.
If you posted a comment about "people find themselves in situations that shape their fate" and it's not showing under your username, you can email me at hello@polliticalscience.vote and I'll fix it.
by crazygringo
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- This is cool. My main question is just, what is its purpose, if not just a coding experiment?
Like you say, it's not scientific or representative. Is it for entertainment, do you want to gamify it? Is it pedagogical? Why is it anonymous? Do you want it to get picked up by the media? Are you trying to demonstrate something about public opinion or polarization? Do you want it to become popular? Do you want it to become more accurate? Or is it just a toy?
I have so many questions just because it could be so many different things, and the idea of a single daily poll on the main current event feels like it could have legs. (Though I don't know what today's poll about the death penalty has anything to do with today's or yesterday's news cycle?)
Very clever domain name btw.
- Cool project! The results of all the archived votes made sense to me, but I was most surprised by this one:
> The U.S. was right to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO)
> 62% Agree - 38% Disagree
I didn't know that the WHO had such a negative reputation. We are quite fond of such international institutions in the EU at least (ranging from a force for good to fairly harmless). What's the context? The rest of the votes seem quite liberal leaning otherwise.
by kjshsh123
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- I think it would be cool to track how votes differ depending on where a user was linked from. Being able to see e.g. "x% from hackernews support death penalty, y% from x". You wouldn't just be polling but also showing differences between users of different sites.
by FranchuFranchu
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- You should probably say somewhere that the questions are US-centric. For example, "the death penalty should remain legal" doesn't make sense in places where it isn't.
by boldslogan
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- feature request? dumb question, but can you add underneath or after you click your vote and before you show it. can you ask "What do you think most people answered" for that question.
It is cool to see the distribution of yes/no. But maybe when you do that you can do a kind of....how far off was i type result that lets people learn about their...biases? or just a fun surprise.
Anyways fun idea!
- It would be cool to be able to see how sentiment changes for a specific issue over time. Maybe you could recycle questions every so often?
- Website says "no tracking" on the frontpage. I look at ublock origin, it mentions one blocked domain called "plausible.io". I go to plausible.io and see that "Easy to use and privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative Plausible is powerful, lightweight analytics. No cookies, just insights. Made and hosted in the EU, powered by European-owned infrastructure. "
"No tracking" is a different concept than "Google analytics alternative".
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