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[–]zyxzevn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Here is MIT's deliberation, which is far too complex.
But it has some of the features that I mentioned.
Introduction to the MIT Deliberatorium
The example is stupid, but maybe you can look through it.

The technique is argument mapping:
1) Issue/problem.
2) Idea /solution.
3) argument for or against.

I think that these could be tags.

I would extend the system to:

1) Issue/problem.
+ Scope of problem.

2) Idea/ solution.
+ Scope of solution.

3) arguments+evidence
- a) Logical consistency / logical fallacy
- b) evidence / science
- c) Crime/ faked / hoax / cover-up?
- d) Bias / P-hacking / group-think

4) Unknowns / unverified alternatives / open questions.

[–]theoracle[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So I watched the video thanks. This is an interesting idea for presenting data. I know I have on old forums had to wade through 100's and 100's of comments in threads to extract the useful info. The vote system is meant to help with that but it doesn't always. In some instances good ideas can get downvoted because of the ignorant masses...

To implement your system it requires moderation, which presents the problem of who is your moderator? And for that I think optional moderation is the best solution. You could have tags which are specifically around your concept, and then the platform could have an option to organize based on those tags. You would also likely have a group to moderate on it too.

There is however an alternative solution which I have used. That is you read though an entire post and extract all the relevant info, add or modify as you see fit, and then make a new post, and in that way the idea progresses and is refined. You will see with my post history on this post's idea that is what I have already done....

On a side note I actually had an idea for another site or platform with was solely about distilling all the truths of human knowledge. It would basically try to find and verify every possible piece of knowledge humans have about anything. All the way from things in academia like about physics and chemistry etc to things in trades like techniques of woodworking or how to do various things. We have representations of these everywhere in schools or on youtube, but I want it distilled so you have the best representation of them.

[–]zyxzevn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That knowledge database seems like a great plan. But it is a hard problem to solve.
Maybe the ideas that I listed can help.