Reader feedback mechanism

I didn't envision this as something that would appear universally on all articles. Rather, an option that editors could use to get feedback from readers if they wanted it.

As for gaming and canvassing, hard for me to see how that would be a problem. If an editor saw that dozens of readers were signing up to urge him to support Obama, he could always ignore them, and shut down the survey.

I suggest that you take a look, if you haven't already, at the survey we did on the project, and see for yourself how powerful a tool it could be.