Re:Show HN: Weighted campaign donations based on competitive...
by edbaskerville on Friday September 04, 2020 @07:53PM
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Thanks for the suggestion. The wording is something I've struggled a lot with; I've found it hard to find something accurate but also short and accessible for non-technical people. Clearly it's not quite there, if that was your reaction.
A bit more context for readers: the full text at present is
> We split up your donation intelligently with a randomized algorithm, so candidates in closer races get a bigger share. Races are weighted according to the estimated impact of each dollar.
The technical details are on a separate page, which at present you need to scroll to discover.
Re:Show HN: Weighted campaign donations based on competitive...
by benchess on Friday September 04, 2020 @07:48PM
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It's all pretty well covered in the Methodology section of the about page: https://takecongress.org/about.html
Re:Show HN: Weighted campaign donations based on competitive...
by edbaskerville on Friday September 04, 2020 @08:36PM
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I went ahead and broke that out into a separate page:
> We split up your donation intelligently with a randomized algorithm
Your description here on HN gives some confidence that something hopefully intelligent is going on. The description on your website is not going to give anyone (nerd or not) a compelling reason to use your site.
My suggestion would be to take the content, text, and layout of your website as seriously as you took the algorithm if you want anyone to use of this cool bit of math and code you built.