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TomGrey's avatar

Good idea - similar goal to Arnold Kling's "Fantasy Intellectual Teams*". http://www.arnoldkling.com/...

Big gains for such a forum.

I like FI better, in order to get criteria for the audience to rate posts & casts, with the hope of getting more reasonable discussion. We need a process of raising the status of pundits who raise "good points", more than merely good at debate persuasion.

It's good to have gamification, but the scoring is a big issue.Twitter, FB, YouTube, reddit has likes, retweets, some dislikes for popularity scoring - not good.Super easy likes is not selective enough.Having a Team owner/promoter, with a personal referee for each submission for points is far too "judgement intense".

(* I chose you on my FI Team in April, somebody else got you in May. )

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Daniel Böttger's avatar

Measurement is much easier than setting this up, so I'd want to have competing measurements in a beta phase. Definitely points per consensus element in the synthesis, and per side agreeing this rest is better than what they came on with. I guess I'd want to give points for subclaims marked as directly opposed, so participants don't talk past each other or are secretly in cahoots against third party views.

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