I like the broad vision imagining as many useful tools as possible to throw at the problem, but this has too many parts competing for attention, at least for a product without a mature community. What do you think is the minimum subset to build and sustain a userbase?
A few other thoughts:
Most issues don't actually have just 2 sides and grouping subtly different points of view into one side leads to apparently inconsistent positions which are frustrating to argue against.
I don't think reaching consensus is generally possible for the kind of argum... (read more)
Really large, which is a major fail point.
I think consensus is not possible for some of them; we're not going to "solve" abortion or God. On issues like that, the best that could be accomplished is helping people understand where the other is coming from and reducing animosity a little. (Which I think would be very worthwhile, if that could be accomplished, but even that might not happen.) Some compromise actions might possibly become popular, like privately funding programs for low-income women who might otherwise have abortions.
On other topics, I think we might be able to come much closer to a consensus than we are. Maybe not 100%, but a well-laid-out argument for adopting a different voting system, enacting a particular set of campaign finance reforms, a phase-out plan for eliminating or changing government farm subsidies, or a suggestion for how amazon can increase employee satisfaction without losing profits...those might make it pretty close to consensus.
That's...a really interesting idea. That might satisfy my desire to quickly find all the important aspects on an issue in one place. You'd have to mentally build the organization between ideas and options yourself, instead of having them visually laid out, but you'd spare yourself the trouble of forcing people to build or agree on that organization. Are you going to build it? Do you think a lot of people would use it if you did?
I like the broad vision imagining as many useful tools as possible to throw at the problem, but this has too many parts competing for attention, at least for a product without a mature community. What do you think is the minimum subset to build and sustain a userbase?
A few other thoughts:
Most issues don't actually have just 2 sides and grouping subtly different points of view into one side leads to apparently inconsistent positions which are frustrating to argue against.
I don't think reaching consensus is generally possible for the kind of argum... (read more)