en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/275070 Comments by Bruce Mellen http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12058885 Sorry. I’m actually very happy to see this, but jumped past that. I have been waiting for years to get beyond the 1000s of forums/blogs that are heavily moderated/filtered, and still not looked at when determining policy. Emails to politicians almost always go into perceived black holes. I have a lot of hopes a single forum under Change.gov or Google, or whatever becomes blessed by this administration. I’ve had a lot of pent-up frustration waiting for something like this to appear. And once they make some changes/fixes (hopefully quickly, before our major shifts in policy are settled), I’d like to see it rolled out to include any subject related to government. I’m a systems person who has seen a lot of short-sighted application implementations in my day – thus very critical and full of positive suggestions to remedy user interfaces. I would like to add… •I had a very difficult time getting back to find and re-comment on the above thread, even after RSS of the thread I started (subscribing in Outlook), or clicking on “Go to comment” on the email I received. What did I miss? Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:34:49 +0000 http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12058885 http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12020548 And once something is posted, it should not be able to be edited. Wed, 3 Dec 2008 05:22:20 +0000 http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12020548 http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12020328 (Continued from above) * RSS for new threads containing specified keyword search combination (saved searches) * RSS of a thread’s responses at any point/below in a thread * Allow more than text in replies (.pdf, video,….), and allow more space in each comment * Allow the creation of a thread response also linked to another thread. * Thumbs-up/down needs to be expanded to slightly up/down I have many specific thoughts on how to make this more manageable and exceedingly extensible, and would welcome a call from the appropriate Obama team so that a better forum/blog can be built for all this Main Street participation. Wed, 3 Dec 2008 04:59:32 +0000 http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12020328 http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12020137 (Continued from above) Add the following to my minimum suggestions… * Sophisticated search capability for [sub]threads sorted by hit score, viewing frequency, or up/down by date/time, and filtered by date/time range, keywords/phrases (and allow for very complex Boolean searches), in titles and/or content. And allow the saving of searches for future visits to the site.* Entries need to have date/time stamp displayed * Allow the specification of a ‘page’ size and the ability to directly go to a ‘page’ instead of just going to the next and previous ‘page’ * Allow my bookmarking of things I read, so I can find them later * Google needs to index the forum hourly (Continued below in a response to my own post) Wed, 3 Dec 2008 04:58:53 +0000 http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12020137 http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12020114 After seeing thousands of comments here, I know there needs to be a better way to be able to get at pieces of interest as well as a developing (nor not) consensus on particular aspects. A simple forum such as this is not the way to best get feedback from Main Street. I would suggest, at a minimum… * Titles/one-liners for each thread and allowing the user to expand the thread from there (or by hovering over it see the 1st 100 words/abstract, and clicking to open it in a new browser tab), rather than forcing the person to collapse so much text and not see the structure of the thread * Associating keywords and phrases with each thread root, allowing respondents the opportunity to add keywords/phrases to their position in the thread and below I have many specific thoughts on how to make this more manageable and exceedingly extensible, and would welcome a call from the appropriate Obama team so that a better forum/blog can be built for all this Main Street participation. (Continued below in a response to my own post) Wed, 3 Dec 2008 04:56:52 +0000 http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12020114 http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12019423 It takes more than streamlining payments. The reimbursement rates must also allow for the provider to treat the patient without loosing money. Wed, 3 Dec 2008 03:54:04 +0000 http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healthcare_response/#IDComment12019423