[3] The service allowed the management of feedback from a large number of people, who could vote for questions they thought should be posed from a pool of questions submitted by others or submit their own to be asked and voted on.
[4] The service was internally nicknamed Dory at Google, a reference to "the fish who asked questions all the time in Finding Nemo".
The first series ran for less than 48 hours and attracted 1 million votes from 20,000 people on 10,000 questions.
[8][9] The second series ran for just over a week and attracted 4.7 million votes from 100,000 people on 76,000 questions.
[9] In January 2009, Obama appointed Stanton to the newly created position of Director of Citizen Participation.