Frequently Asked Questions
If we don't have your questions here, please send them to support@biggervoices.com. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
General Questions
- What is Bigger Voice?
- How do I submit an article?
- Am I voting on the article or the politicians?
- How do I pick someone to be my bigger voice and how many can I have?
- Who are the politicians are on this site?
- I already have a political blog, how does this help my site?
- How do I get the article widget for my article?
Facebook Users
- What does Bigger Voices, the Facebook Appliciation, do?
- What information do you collect?
- How many articles can I review?
- How do I show the pictures in my feed?
- How come I cannot find you in the Facebook Applications Directory?
What is Bigger Voice?
Everyone has a voice, but sometimes it's hard to get our little voices heard. We hope to make all the little voices count and make our politicians notice by doing the following:
- Aggregate people's opinions on the politicians in our day to day news or blogs.
- Give you the opportunity to support people who share similar values as you and let them be your bigger voices.
Would this really work? To be honest, we dont know. We are just a couple of Silicon Valley techies who are doing this as a hobby. If you have ideas on what we can do to make things better, feel free to send them to support@biggervoices.com.
How do I submit an article?
Any one can submit an article by click on the link on the upper right hand corner of the home page or the link on your personal profile. You just need to do two things:
- Enter title, url, and a short description.
- Search for politicians in the article and add to them to the article.
After that, it will be visible to everyone and people voice their opinions on the politicians of the article.
Am I voting on the article or the politicians?
A little bit of both. If you are a registered user, then you can click on the little
and 
to indicate that whether the news
article make you feel positive or negative about the politicians in that article so the vote
is mostly about the politicians. However, the more vote the politicians in the article
gets, the more popular the article become as well. If you feel the article is not useful,
then just ignore it.
How do I pick someone to be my bigger voice and how many can I have?
When you visit people's profile, you can see their background, their opinions and their supporters.
If you believe this person share similar values as you and you want them to represent you, you can
click on the link on the upper right hand corner of their profile next to this
check mark 
.
After you choose a person to be your bigger voice, he/she will show up in your own "My Voices" section. You can see the aggregated view of all the opinions on politicians expressed by all your bigger voices in the "My Voices" section. Hopefully you will take that into consideration when you are ready to vote. This will give your bigger voices some more leverage in case he/she needs to fight for certain causes that you believe in as well.
You can have 17 bigger voices. Yes, this is after extensive statistical studies so use them wisely. 
Who are the politicians are on this site?
We have all current senators, congressmen, and governors. Ideally, we would like to have all the candidates who are running for these offices as well, but it takes some time to get all of the into our system. After that, it's whoever in the current news cycle. If there are people you want to see in our system, please send email to support@biggervoices.com.
I already have a political blog, how does this help my site?
If you already has a political blog, we hope we can provide some tools to complement your site. If your readers signed up to be your supporter, it will be easier to get your view across. Your readers might know which Presidental candidate you support, but they probably don't know which candidate you support in the 7th district of California and why.
Another thing we want to provide is the article widget you can put for your articles and your readers can voice their opinions on the candidates. Hopefully as we picked up more users for this site, we will be able to drive more traffics to your site as well.
How do I get the article widget for my article?
When you go to the view article page, you should see a link that looks like:
Article Owner? Get Article Widget
Just click on that link and copy the content in the textbox to your page. This is the same as all the other widgets out there. If the widget does not show up on your page, please send email to support@biggervoices.com.
What does Bigger Voices, the Facebook Appliciation, do?
You just need to click on the the little
and icons and
the articles you reviewed will automatically show up on your wall
for your friends to comment on. Your profile will look something like this:
What information do you collect?
Only your Facebook ID. We use your name to create a login name for you, but you can change that after an account is created. We might also collect your location if Facebook allows it, but currently we cannot store that information according to Facebook policy.
How many articles can I review?
You can review as many as you want, but only 5 will show up in your Facebook feed per day. We do not want to overwhelm your friends too much.
How do I show the pictures in my feed?
By default we can only publish a one line story to your feed. If you just want to show the picture for a particular story, then you can change the "Story Option" for that item to "Short". If you want all stories from Bigger Voices to be in the "short" format, you will need to edit the application setting for Bigger Voices to allow us to always publish stories in the "short" format.
How come I cannot find you in the Facebook Applications Directory?
Sorry we just started the Facebook Application on 10/26 so our application has not been approved yet. In the mean time you can see the about page at:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=31228227234