Reddit Style Voting for Six Month Plan

[Soothsayer]

This is going to be like the White House death star petition.

I get that it was funny and cute and everything. Everybody was able to talk about it for a while, that was great. I get it.

Now a system that was intended to increase citizen participation and engagement with policy planning has had the bar raised for all projects, not just ones that everybody knows are a joke. They had to, because the bureaucracy can't pick and choose which projects are jokes and which ones aren't. To have a gatekeeper would negate the open forum nature of the concept. (As a disclaimer, that is my understanding of the situation based on the media reports that reached me, I don't live in the states.)

When you get asinine or ill informed and poorly planned projects getting the green light because someone was able to mobilize a bunch of mouse clicks, there's a problem.