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I am responding to a comment you left about online debate: Arguing on the internet does not have to be terrible. Conflict resolution facilitators say that you need your group to be big enough to get a diverse set of perspectives, but small enough that everyone can participate... The internet needs both of these... the problem is the format, none of it is organized in a wikipdia style format that allows for continual refinement, but we all have the same argument over and over again, in different formats, on different discussion boards... Can we make a new section for online debate? There are two types of formats: thread type formats that have posts, and responses... a problem with this is that the subject changes so often. A new type of format has one website for each belief, with reasons to agree and disagree in separate columns. This allows a wikipedia type effort by many people to continually refine and define all aspects of the debate, outlining all the reasons to agree and disagree. This method does not feel as natural, because when someone responds, you want to jump in, and start arguing the ideas that come to mind, but with the internet, alternative forms of debate are becoming available. Algorithms could even be used to count reasons to agree and disagree. myclob (talk) 16:54, 27 June 2010 (UTC)