This Citizen's Briefing Book website is a great idea, but I'm worried that
we're (unintentionally) spread ourselves too thin. And by "ourselves" I really
mean all metrication supporters. It seems that people keep creating the same
topic with regards to the metric system. A few of them have almost 1 000 points
(a vote is 10 points for some reason), but the rest of them have a little less.
And the number of points goes down the newer the idea is.
I think that gradually a few ideas, or even just one, will take hold and that
(those) will be the main idea (ideas). However, will this hurt the cause? Could
having a few highly-voted but still separate ideas be a bad thing?
And not to rain on the Briefing Book parade, but there are certain ideas with
tens of thousands of points, which means thousands of votes (gotta love that
base ten). How can we possibly compete? Should we not put so much hope into
these voting websites? I think I mentioned this before. As long as metric isn't
the "hot topic" then we won't have much time in the spotlight.
