{"id":1764,"date":"2008-06-09T07:58:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T07:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-06-09T08:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T08:01:01","slug":"since_i_do_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1764","title":{"rendered":"Since I Do This For A Living…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…I need to weigh in on the Obama<\/a>\/anti-Semetic web page brouhaha<\/a>. The critics<\/a> need to chill before they badly embarrass themselves on this one.While there are legitimate grounds to poke Obama on his issues wrt Israel and Jews (and in response to being poked, he’s made pretty much all the right noises – enough that it’s not a Top Ten issue for me), this is absolutely, unqualifiedly not one of them.<\/p>\n

Here’s why. Any registered user of mybarakobama.com can post a blog – which this was. There’s no advance moderation, because – I imagine – they can’t afford it, and they want to keep the site ‘spontaneous’.<\/p>\n

I could post something bizarre and controversial, and it’d stay up until someone saw it and complained. People saw it, made noise, it was pulled.<\/p>\n

Now a few things about that – it could be a RF (dirty trick) or just a nutty poster. Doesn’t matter – it tarnishes the brand.<\/p>\n

But how much? Look the fact that McCain has a few obnoxious supporters is not reason I wouldn’t support him. The same is absolutely true of Obama. It’s becoming ridiculous that someone who simply self-identifies as a supporter (as opposed to an adviser, ally, or someone one of the candidates has actively worked with) makes one iota of difference in my views – and why should they matter to yours?<\/p>\n

Now since I design systems and the business processes like this for my clients, I’ll make a few suggestions for the campaign.<\/p>\n

1. Get moderation on text postings – doesn’t have to be in advance, you can have a ‘new content’ queue and have someone go through it. With my commercial clients, I often suggest offshoring this to another English-speaking country – India or the Philippines where someone can look for simple pornography or otherwise inappropriate content, and flag questionable things to be reviewed by a local staff with domain knowledge. That won’t work for Obama (for obvious reasons) but he could build a volunteer pool big enough that no post would be up for more than a few hours before someone had eyes on it.<\/p>\n

2. Moderate image postings in advance. Sorry, gotta have some eyes on those in advance – today ‘Jew Senator Lieberman’ – tomorrow kiddie porn or snuff images. As above, build a moderation queue and have volunteers or low-wage employees moderate them.<\/p>\n

3. Use mojo or some other rating system to allow users to build ‘trust’ – i.e. identify the posters who are trusted by the campaign because they have been valuable posters and identify their content. Let users know who has some credibility in the community and steer new readers to their content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Political websites meet political RF’ing…or social media reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}