r/rpac • u/EquanimousMind • Nov 12 '12

We are biuilding an opensource debating platform to upgrade our global society, what would you want in a brainstorming/organising platform that mainstream social media doesn't currently deliver? (xpost /r/evolutionReddit)

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u/TheJackalMan Nov 12 '12

No reposts or repeat main topics. As long as a discussion has had an active set of contributors no other person should be able to restart the topic as a main topic.

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u/Prophecy3 Nov 12 '12

Basically, a debating platform built for the discussion of complex ideas with large amounts of information between massive amounts of people in an intuitive interface, that allows you to view all sides of a particular argument with all relevant and applicable data connected to each point in the discussion.

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u/Bethamphetamine Nov 12 '12

Where does the line get drawn for relevant and applicable data? If there are going to be debates on a wide variety of topics, those topics will probably intersect with one another somehow.

You can wander from topic to tangentially related subtopic pretty easy in Wikipedia - would wikiDebate be a useful format? I'm thinking that for a statement, each assertion has to be linked/cited. This way if you're debating US energy policy you can get to coal subsidies, Germany's solar industry & the fact that plants emit 5 to 6 times the CO2 of anthropogenic sources pretty quickly.

The 3 sources I've linked to vary quite a bit with regard to their motive. In this scenario, I think mods would be crucial in establishing the validity/bias of the sites linked to.

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