Patent ID: 8510385

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of user polling associated with an interactive broadcasting platform, the method comprising: maintaining a list of one or more existing request posts associated with content on an interactive broadcasting platform, said existing request posts having been posted by one or more users associated with said interactive broadcast platform; receiving a new request post from another user associated with said interactive broadcasting platform, said new request post associated with said interactive broadcasting platform; receiving votes from a group of users, said group of users including any of said one or more users, said another user, and other non-posting users associated with said interactive broadcasting platform, said votes being associated with at least one of said one or more existing request posts and said new request post; determining a score, for said existing request posts and for said new request post, according to a function that includes said votes received from said group of users; monitoring one or more social media platforms identifiable with at least some of said group of users for positive responses to lobbying posts by a user from said at least some of said group of users, said lobbying posts comprising calls for support, said lobbying posts being associated with one of said request posts for which a vote was received associated with said user; and in response to receiving said positive responses, determining a weight for increasing said score for said one of said request posts, said weight based on a quantity of said positive responses.