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Mmm...impartial curation is certainly difficult to find online. I also wonder how it is in today's political climate compared with 10 years ago - even with teachers. Probably the b…

Haha. Handling commonly repeated argument forms would be a good feature. Instead of a lengthy comment, just click the "fire in a crowded theater" rebuttal and save everyone some ti…

> I don't think it's possible anymore to have thoughtful, intelligent political discussions online with both sides. I agree. And that makes it a problem worth solving. I just feel …

But you'll be back the next day. Can you be banned without the chamber voting on it in some way?

> Personally, I just acknowledge the selfish motive and use debating as a tool for bringing out ideas from others that I might not have thought of myself, so that I can then incorp…

What we need is people to be properly incentivized to win whilst arguing the opposing view. From this exercise you will come to understand your opponents view perfectly. But its a …

Thanks for the link to arguman. Looks really interesting. I'm not the biggest fan of the visual tree and would prefer people not to stray from plain text entry as much as possible …

> you don't know who you are arguing with and you don't know what positions they actually hold. Good point. A lot of argumentation comes down to whether the arguments they make are…

> Now if you just want to bring back the old art of rethoric instead of the negatively charged "political debates". You may have a bit more chance. This is the idea. > I think that…

Wouldn't it be great though if there was such a platform where you could lose your cool with someone without having to be banned, moderated, etc. The ad-hominem part of the argumen…

Yep, its always "you need to read this to understand", or here is a statistic that proves my point. > I think in-person can be good for very high level arguments, Its good for expl…

> What I really want is for more people to make good faith efforts to make substantive arguments against their own opinions Agree! A big cause of the divide is that people don't un…

HN is usually not the right place for heated debate. Discussions end up in flame wars, vitriolic language, and the moderation is very ad-hoc. But people definitely love to debate. …