This is a nice idea. Once it gets large enough though, you're going to half to infer political leaning from what a person votes for, or else it'll be very easily abused.
I do think it's great though. I think I'll give it a whirl.
I do think it's great though. I think I'll give it a whirl.
I'm hoping that as long as there are enough truthful users, I can build a classifier based on their voting/commenting behavior and use it to detect "false-flagging." But for the time being I'll just have to manually moderate that kind of behavior.
Post tags are something that I'm planning on implementing in the near future, though I'll need to think a little more about the best way to do them. I was planning to use them as a way of identifying topics only (e.g. abortion, immigration, taxes), but I like your idea of tagging particular stances as well.