Debate

The owner of truth mapping does a pretty good job of explaining the problems of the internet, and how a formal system could help improve debate:

Clay Shirky explains how the internet will help democracy:

I think we should create a forum that allows people to brainstorm all the reasons to agree or disagree with each belief. We then track the number and quality of each reason (or argument). When you click on a reason (or argument) you can post reasons to agree or disagree with it.

I like killing two birds with one stone, so I have tried to create this type of forum, and get people to help post reasons to agree or disagree. Here are some of the websites I have created, that use reasons to agree:

• http://code.google.com/p/ideastockexchange/
• https://sites.google.com/site/yeahneh/
• Reasons to Agree and Disagree With President Obama Blog
• Mitt Romney Encyclopedia

Other people have had similar ideas. Here are some examples:

• http://www.createdebate.com/
• http://debatepedia.idebate.org/
• Here are my contributions to debatapedia. 

I have also gone to other idea websites to try and explain my idea. Here are some of my attempes

• My Ideas ideas (on the "Halfbakery" webpage)
• My Ideas on the "Global Idea Bank" webpage

These are old groups that I don't use much any more that I tried to explain my ideas with:

• Idea Stock Exchange (Online Debate Reform): Google Group
• Idea Stock Exchange (Online Debate Reform): Yahoo Group

I outline how I would like to track all the reasons, images, webpages, and videos that support or oppose a belief on the same page.

I have been advocating this idea for more than 10 years now, with very little success. I'm giving it one last attempt to organize all my ideas, and explain it well. I'm trying to outline my ideas with schematics. Here is where I plan on keeping them.

Here is where I explain the algorithm or math of how it would work.