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by sinak 3984 days ago
> So my point is: why bother with increasing their volume. It's a bit like shipping gasoline to a forest fire.

Isn't this exactly what you did at BSD? Enabled advocacy organizations to send millions of form-letter to Congress, making real constituent contact get lost in the flood?

I've already addressed how we plan on incentivizing members of Congress to write better responses, but again: we're looking at an open dataset of comments, and reports on timeliness and content of responses.