These are very reasonable concerns. To address them, I think it might make sense to limit submissions so that only people employed at EA orgs could submit, and only for bills related to their work at the org. Those people would presumably have the specialized knowledge needed to evaluate the legislation, and most EA orgs aren’t advocating for legislation that is polarizing within the community.
Alternately, submissions could stay open to everyone but the person receiving/​organizing the submissions could be empowered to ask for more info about the submission, ask for qualifications from the person proposing the idea, or even delete submissions that aren’t aligned to current EA priorities (e.g. related to abortion). I’d like to believe that, if the submission form asked folks to only submit things they had a lot of knowledge about, that they would self-monitor.
These are very reasonable concerns. To address them, I think it might make sense to limit submissions so that only people employed at EA orgs could submit, and only for bills related to their work at the org. Those people would presumably have the specialized knowledge needed to evaluate the legislation, and most EA orgs aren’t advocating for legislation that is polarizing within the community.
Alternately, submissions could stay open to everyone but the person receiving/​organizing the submissions could be empowered to ask for more info about the submission, ask for qualifications from the person proposing the idea, or even delete submissions that aren’t aligned to current EA priorities (e.g. related to abortion). I’d like to believe that, if the submission form asked folks to only submit things they had a lot of knowledge about, that they would self-monitor.