Thanks for the question, and thanks for your interest in You Make Change! As you can see from the page, it’s very much still in beta form, so thank you for your feedback. We’ll be considering the functionality as part of our Democracy Review which we’re doing this term, and will be running specific consultation on You Make Change. One of our main aims is to make as much as possible public, so this fits in with what we have in mind already.

In regards to your specific suggestion, it might be useful to know that although we have had ~90 submissions, not all have been questions – this also includes a lot of ideas, most of which have gone to Union Council (which you can see here https://www.susu.org/downloads/democracy/papers/9_1058_1444842386.pdf). It also includes test submissions (about 10). Of the questions, quite a lot are personal or private – ie, they ask information which the submitter would otherwise email, and wouldn’t want to be publicly displayed. We don’t currently have a way for the submitter to choose whether they want their question to be asked publicly or not, but we’ll look at introducing this for greater clarity.

We’ll be producing some better stats as part of the Democracy Review and consultation, so look out for all this in the next few weeks.

Thanks

Kerry

Vice President Democracy and Creative Industries