[CM30]

It's a pretty neat concept for a site so far. Certainly like the idea of sorting votes by their partisan distribution for all these things.

However, one question remains here:

How do you plan to market this site?

Because at the end of the day, a community site or aggregator lives and dies based on the amount of people using it. How do you plan to draw in enough people to keep the community active in the long term? To overcome the whole 'network effect' issue?

[mrbodoia]

Haha that's a great question. I also think that for a site like this, it's important to not only consider how to get enough users, but how to get high-quality users. So while a Twitter spam campaign might lead to lots of signups, it might also cause comment quality to plunge and lead to more time spent moderating.

My short-term plan was to just mention the site on some subreddits/blogs/discussion forums frequented by the type of people who I think might enjoy this site. I'm optimistic because my bar for success here is quite low - I'm not trying to draw major traffic for ad revenue, I'm mostly just interested in a site where I can read and discuss politics with other thoughtful people. So I think it would be possible to achieve long-term stability with only a few dozen regular users.

Of course, a few dozen is a far cry from the current user base! So for now, I will plug it on a few websites and see where that takes me.