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Re:Mailing list debates considered harmful by thunk on Saturday May 29, 2010 @03:44PM (#1389168)
Sometimes they aren't, sometimes they are. Something about babies and bathwater. The ideal online debate platform would algorithmically marginalize bikeshedding.
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Re:Mailing list debates considered harmful by pg on Saturday May 29, 2010 @03:48PM (#1389175)
"The ideal online debate platform would algorithmically marginalize bikeshedding."

That is a great sentence, in both senses.

It's hard to do, though YC does have several features for this, and they seem to work to some extent.

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