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You get a bunch of questions about weed (http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december122008/barack_cannabis_12-12-08.php)
Marijuana Legalization Tops List of Questions for Obama in Online Poll
It's kind of a shitty article, so that's pretty much the gist.

The questions come from this program-
Pilot projects like "Open for Questions" depend on feedback from users to better understand how to make participation intuitive and productive.

Obama's team stated, "Participation in Open for Questions outpaced our expectations, and we're looking forward to rolling it out again next week. We're tremendously excited about the promise of tools like this that offer Americans a level of access that has historically been hard to come by."

By voting questions up, users have been able to convey to the team which major issues -- including the auto industry, health care, ethical standards, and others -- are the most important to this community.

So here's what happened:
Since its launch Wednesday, the "Open for Questions" tool processed over 600,000 votes from more than 10,000 people on more than 7,300 questions.

Voting came to a close Friday, December 12th, at 12:00 AM Eastern Time, so that the team can prepare answers to some of the most popular questions.
That's 600,000 votes from 10,000 people.

If there's one thing stoners have, it's the time and inclination to sit at a computer and click, "I like it." StumbleUpon has trained us well...

I don't expect a radical change in drug policy, especially since Obama is an admitted former user he's not going to want to appear 'weak' on drugs and generally is likely to have a negative view of them in general (he might not, who knows...some people quit thinking it's just fine just not for them, others are more vehement that it's the devil's harvest than they were before trying it).

But, at least he now has to form some sort of address on the subject. He's lucky he doesn't have to answer a question about cats with captions...

Don't get me wrong, I like the amount of access the new President wants to have and his utilization of the internet for openness in government, but now the process of 'weighting' that input has to begin. Maybe we could call it the "Ron Paul Quotient." The decimal you have to multiply enthusiasm by to accurately represent 'real world' results.

What's next on the wikiality questions? What do you think the weighting formula will be? Why doesn't water burn?

People probably ask those kinds of question because they feel protected by the anonymity of the internet.

(yeah, don't say it; it's all an illusion, but you know what I mean).

the only option is that it allowed voters to vote on more than one question. so it may be that average person voted voted for 60 questions.

Thank God no Chuck Norris questions made it to the top...

the only option is that it allowed voters to vote on more than one question. so it may be that average person voted voted for 60 questions.
Fair enough.
Thank God no Chuck Norris questions made it to the top...

It's only a matter of time before the call goes up for a new cabinet position, "Ass Kicking Czar" with Chuck Norris as the only nominee...

This is Anonymous' doing, they ha a topic about it not too long ago.

I recall a website asking for suggestions as to what the GOP should do moving forward. The top idea was to buy every American a set of Truck Nutz.

This is Anonymous' doing, they ha a topic about it not too long ago.

You'd think that they'd come up with a more amusing or creative question...

Well, I guess not, really...

It's only a matter of time before the call goes up for a new cabinet position, "Ass Kicking Czar" with Chuck Norris as the only nominee...

As long as it's not something involving Caturday images, I'm cool.

For a moment i read "that's 600,000 volts from 10,000 people", like wow man, they've got a new form of energy i'd market that idea and get rich. ah for misreading things is fun.

For a moment i read "that's 600,000 volts from 10,000 people", like wow man, they've got a new form of energy i'd market that idea and get rich. ah for misreading things is fun.

Drug induced superpowered people hooked to the power grid? Intrigued.

It's only a matter of time before the call goes up for a new cabinet position, "Ass Kicking Czar" with Chuck Norris as the only nominee...

His running mate will be the foot he uses to roundhouse kick you in the face.

the only option is that it allowed voters to vote on more than one question. so it may be that average person voted voted for 60 questions.
There's a very common system which has "1 vote per person per day" (person being IP). Very common in internet rankings. It's done this way to increase ad revenue, not sure why in this case.

That way they could legitimately have multiple votes per person.