This was discussed at some point with respect to allowing people to
subscribe to alerts people or people in particular positions (people
subscribed to Cameron as their MP, or as the PM). Some thought needs to
go into a clear UI for it, which I suppose could include some way to
choose specifically what things you want alerting for (I'm thinking a
popup dialog workflow where it asks you in what capacity you're
subscribing, and what bits you want (with defaults), though maybe that's
too complex and just two subscription links would work).
I think the conclusion was that it'd be cool but there are other
features with priority. Someone else could probably be more specific.
-t
On 16/06/10 11:52, Mark Goodge wrote:
Following the election and change of government, my local MP has been
appointed a Minister of State for Defence. One side-effect of this is
that my TWFY email alert for him now contains primarily links to his
written answers relating to defence procurement. There are two
problems with this:
1. I though I was signing up to get an alert when my MP *speaks* in
parliament (and, indeed, that's what it says on the "My current email
alerts" page - it says the criteria are "spoken by Peter Luff").
Written responses shouldn't be included in that, surely?
2. I'm not all that interested in defence matters - what I want to
know about is how well my MP is performing as a constituency MP, and
what he says in debates rather than merely giving statements on behalf
of his department.
It would be nice, therefore, to have a bit more customisation over
what alerts I get. In particular, I'd like to be able to exclude
written answers completely from the regular alert so that I really
only do get alerted to spoken contributions. Secondly (although less
importantly), I'd like the alerts to distinguish between when my MP is
speaking on his own behalf and when he's speaking from the dispatch
box (ie, when he's speaking on behalf of the government).
Are either of those likely to be implementable in the not-too-distant
future?
Mark
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