The drug question always seems to come up as the #1 question asked when a vote is put to internet users. And every time Obama dodges/laughs at the question.
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#22So legalization of marijuana is our nation's biggest concern right now? I'm not sure what to think about that.
1) It's a funny question to retweet, 2) it's something the president does not typically get asked about, and 3) As far as problems facing our country, it has a relatively easy answer, IMHO.
I'm sure more people are worried about the economy, but "how are you going to fix unemployment?" is neither a fun/funny question to ask nor is it likely to produce an interesting or novel response.
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#23Sprinkling a little Twitter pixie dust on an infographic doesn't make a pure politics story germane to HN. Flagged. Please do likewise.
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#24The drug question always seems to come up as the #1 question asked when a vote is put to internet users. And every time Obama dodges/laughs at the question.
And every time Obama dodges/laughs at the question.
Well, we can stop hoping for audacity now.
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#25This is one of the worst info graphics I've seen. The graph shows nothing. It took me a couple minutes to realize the numbers outside the box are related to the stuff inside the box. And worst of all what does time zone have to do with anything? The only thing that was even semi-useful was the tag cloud.
Unfortunately, geo-tagging in the Twitter API is still hardly ever used -- in almost 100,000 #AskObama tweets, less than 500 of them were tagged. At the same time we felt that location was an interesting metric, since the country is often politically divided along state lines. The time zone is the best compromise we had. It's not perfect, but the fact that the numbers match the "stereotypes" shows there's at least so…
What does "the numbers match the stereotypes" mean? That the numbers match the relative populations of the timezones?
If so, how would I know this from the infographic? Any why would I care? Shouldn't that be the default assumption?
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#26Sprinkling a little Twitter pixie dust on an infographic doesn't make a pure politics story germane to HN. Flagged. Please do likewise.
We disagree; there's very few other situations where you can get a quantitative look at which issues have mindshare. Most of the time the reporters get complete veto power.
We saw a rare opportunity to apply technology to something it doesn't normally get to be applied to. Seems pretty germane to HN to me.
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#27Sprinkling a little Twitter pixie dust on an infographic doesn't make a pure politics story germane to HN. Flagged. Please do likewise.
We disagree; there's very few other situations where you can get a quantitative look at which issues have mindshare. Most of the time the reporters get complete veto power. We saw a rare opportunity to apply technology to something it doesn't normally get to be applied to. Seems pretty germane to HN to me.
You know how you can tell it's a crappy HN submission? More than half the comments are about drug legalization. This is a Reddit politics story, not an HN story.
This isn't a value judgement on your infographic. It's just the wrong venue for it.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
We disagree; there's very few other situations where you can get a quantitative look at which issues have mindshare. Most of the time the reporters get complete veto power. We saw a rare opportunity to apply technology to something it doesn't normally get to be applied to. Seems pretty germane to HN to me.
You know how you can tell it's a crappy HN submission? More than half the comments are about drug legalization. This is a Reddit politics story, not an HN story. This isn't a value judgement on your infographic. It's just the wrong venue for it.
Tend to disagree - comments are on that topic because of the content of the post.
I'd think the relevance of the venue is determined by the level of comments and votes from the audience, the beauty of social sites. While I agree it doesn't follow the typical content of HN, if the audience up-votes then so be it.