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Re:The Two Flaws Of Libertarian Economics by michaelkeenan on Thursday January 08, 2009 @09:17AM (#424902)
I would like to see a social news aggregation site, such as Reddit and Hacker News, focused on quality debate. Users would tag each submission with its label in Paul Graham's disagreement hierarchy (http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html).

This submission, for example, would probably be tagged "Level 4: Counter-argument". And, probably, also with "Strawman".

You could filter out all submissions rated lower than Level 5 or 6 or whatever your threshold is.

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Re:The Two Flaws Of Libertarian Economics by walterk on Thursday January 08, 2009 @11:47AM (#425148)
I actually think this sort of functionality should be present throughout all forms of online communication. If that happened, the same standards of discourse might leak into offline communication as well.
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Re:The Two Flaws Of Libertarian Economics by pauldino on Thursday January 08, 2009 @11:03AM (#425052)
And we could call it "The Argument Clinic" (Tagline: "The right room for an argument")
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Re:The Two Flaws Of Libertarian Economics by chasingsparks on Thursday January 08, 2009 @10:44AM (#425022)
That would be fantastic.
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