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Comment author: bogus 24 November 2014 05:08:01PM 4 points [-]

That's pretty much how TakeOnIt works already.

Comment author: philh 25 November 2014 12:11:50AM 1 point [-]

That seems pretty similar to what I'm envisioning, but transposed. They want to look at positions, and ask "whose opinions on this position are notable?" where notability is based on whether they're likely to have a clue. I'm going for looking at people, and asking "which of this person's positions are notable?" where notability is based on (something like) whether people are talking about it being their position.

Comment author: bogus 25 November 2014 12:51:13AM 3 points [-]

They want to look at positions, and ask "whose opinions on this position are notable?"

That's just the default view. You can click on the name of any "expert" and bring up a nice report where all of their positions are listed and compared with other experts'.

And "notability" is viewed quite generally anyway. As long as the person has something genuinely worthwhile to say, you can add their opinion on all sorts of stuff.