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Ask HN: Why isn't there an HN/SO for the oil spill?
3 points by tmsh on May 30, 2010 | hide | past | favorite
Clearly this is the wrong way to go about it:

http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/546759/

The submission form is broken, as one might expect. And the manual review process is ridiculous. Can someone with experience in deploying fast HN/StackOverflow/Reddit-like voting forums do this?

Then I can submit my idea:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390225

And more importantly better ideas can be upvoted, criticized, and eventually presented to those who might be able to use them.

'Start with the idea, let the domain experts evaluate its feasibility.'

http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2010/05/should-bp-crowdsource-potential-solutions-for-the-gulf-oil-spill/

Anyway, just an idea...




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