5 ms·
Accord has gone live Call now to someone who disagrees with you about Brexit
We're a small team of British developers who have been working on Accord which has just gone live! Accord will allow you to have a real conversation with a real person, on a topic that you passionately disagree on, in a quest to build mutual understanding, empathy and tolerance.
To try out this service please call in to +44 1327 552039 now to discuss "Will Brexit make Britain a better place" with someone that disagrees with you!
For more information see http://strikeanaccord.wixsite.com/accord
- logancg 10y agoSounds cool. But the website says the topic is "A Trump presidency will be good for America". Which is correct?
- StrikeAnAccord 10y agoThe Brexit debate was at 1pm-2pm GMT today, we are now currently live with the "A Trump presidency will be good for America" discussion topic. If you are in either the UK or US you can call our local rate numbers on: UK: +44 1327 552 039 US: +1 201 500 3775 to have a discussion with someone with a different perspective and potentially different nationality
- stackola 10y agoCool idea. As a German, passionate about some opinions: Will you expand to different countries, too?
- StrikeAnAccord 10y agoWe'd be really happy for you to join the discourse if you're happy calling an international number for a few minutes. This is in its early stages at the moment, we need to prove that we can get enough users before we can make the investment on international number. Thanks for the feedback!
- bansheehash 10y agoYou might want to mention on your site that calls to US phone numbers from anywhere in the world are free on Google Hangouts (https://hangouts.google.com https://hangouts.google.com).
- NTripleOne 10y agoAn actual phone call? Really? In 2016? If I'm going to have a lengthy discussion with someone, I'd rather do it in an environment where I'm not being billed by the minute and in the worst audio quality possible.
- _wmd 10y agoInteresting.. I haven't paid for calls to landlines in the UK for at least a decade, and the air interface to my phone has vastly better latency and error tolerance than anything I've ever seen operate over an IP network
- bbcbasic 10y agoLooks like a land line number. Will probably be free to call on most plans.
- meesterdude 10y agoThis feels like when hitler got elected, but before he started WW2. The path has been chosen but the outcome undefined. Lets talk about whether this will be good or not? I like half of the concept - having a discussion. But I think the topic, structure and timing are all wrong.
- StrikeAnAccord 10y agoThanks for your feedback. We welcome any suggestions you have for improvements.
- cmdrfred 10y agoI'm surprised to find someone of your age on here. Can you go into more detail about what it was like when Hitler was elected?
- Cyph0n 10y agoI highly doubt that he/she is using the word "feels" in a literal sense. I'd love to be proven wrong though!
- fanzhang 10y agoI think the timing is right. After all, before the election, too much of the motivation would be to change each others' minds. It muddles the part where you're calling primarily to understand the other side. It's like asking someone to self-evaluate when their raise is being decided tomorrow, versus having a raise, and sometime later asking that person to self-evaluate.
- meesterdude 10y ago> After all, before the election, too much of the motivation would be to change each others' minds But that's why we argue and debate in the first place. We don't do it AFTER the votes have been called, because it's too late to change anything then.
- e40 10y agoI had a discussion yesterday at Thanksgiving with my brother-in-law, who is a closet Trump supporter. The reason I don't think Accord will NOT go well: when you discuss things with people for whom facts do not matter, you either get steamrolled or it turns into a yelling match/argument. Very, very, very few people that hold untrue facts in their mind are open to re-evaluating those facts. No thank you. EDIT: added the word "NOT" above.
- sweezyjeezy 10y agore: your edit - don't think it will not go well...
- hx87 10y ago"The reason I don't think Accord will NOT go well" = "The reason I think the Accord will go well" Your statement made more sense before the edit.
- e40 10y agoYep, thanks.
- philovivero 10y agoAh, yes, those Trump supporters with their "untrue facts" in their heads. Discussions won't work. Re-education camp is probably called for. Or maybe... just maybe... you're the one with untrue facts in your head, and his true facts collide with your untrue ones? Unpossible!
- SomeStupidPoint 10y agoI don't think the GP meant a one-sided generalization at all, and your comment reads as a needless partisan dig. The charitable way to read the comment is that a particular person he talked to was unconcerned by facts, and that this is a common problem with heated/divisive discussions. (This jives with my experience that most people don't care what's true, they just want to make socially approved noises.)
- 10y ago
- aac74 10y agowell this sounds like a terrible idea !
- jamesw6811 10y agoI'm curious to know if you see much heavier participation from people with certain viewpoints based on the typical demographics of that viewpoint. @StrikeAnAccord, can you comment on this? For example, given the demographic information in the 2016 US Elections, I would expect Hilary supporters to have much higher representation in an online/telephonic medium. Is that the case?
- cylinder 10y agoEU and centralization of power seem to be failing people all around. I expected hackers to like decentralization. I get it, you like all the foreign people you meet in London and visa free travel, but that's not all that matters.
- euyyn 10y agoI expect hackers to like decentralization where it makes things more efficient, regularity where otherwise things would be a mess, and to severely dislike populism and xenophobic rhetoric.