[mapt]

This needs a discussion medium more sophisticated than inline highlight comments.

For example: It is my contention that criminalizing noncommercial DOS attempts is highly inappropriate. They are a very good analogue for protected speech in the form of traditional protest picketing, trying to temporarily drown out and deny painless access. So long as an individual is only committing their own bandwidth to a pingstorm, this seems to me like something that should be handled as a tort. Torts have Constitutionally-limited punitive damages of ~9x demonstrated damages, fractionally allocated to the participants. A hundred thousand 4channers should damn well be able to pingstorm the Westboro Baptist Church's closet server into temporary unavailability.

Botnet-driven DDOS ordered by one person are very different beasts because they can have such a disproportionate impact, because they can be utilized for commercial goals, because they're operating from hijacked hardware, and because rent-a-botnet is common & thus more likely to ask for returns rather than be an expression of speech.

How would I go about making this change based upon consensus though?

[maradydd]

I agree it's not the ideal UI. It's similar to what Darrell Issa's keepthewebopen.com was using with Madison, and to the marked-up texts that the EFF has produced as PDFs, but there's a cognitive jump (for me, at least) between "make a comment" and "propose a change".

Fundamentally, I want a user to be able to propose one or more changes by selecting a section of text and annotating it with a replacement. So there's a semantic difference between "comment" and "change". Furthermore, I also want to be able to easily select a changeset, then produce a draft output that integrates all changes from the changeset.

I think we can do this with co-ment's existing features and maybe a little bit of extra Django hackery, but before I go haring off into the internals, is this more like what you're thinking of?

[mapt]

It would also be useful, at least for me, to present the indentations implied by the outline-style lettering of bill-writing.

[maradydd]

That's a high-priority forthcoming CSS fix, you just bumped it higher. Thanks.