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There's a subreddit for what you're looking for: https://reddit.com/r/changemyview https://reddit.com/r/changemyview Lots of interesting debate happens there.

• collyw 9y ago
  I might do, though I find the discussion generally of a higher quality here than on reddit.
  • dsacco 9y ago
    You might be pleasantly surprised. There are focused subreddits which are quite ruthless and thorough in their moderation style. For example, the modal discussion on /r/NeutralPolitics is far more productive and informed than on Hacker News. /r/AskHistorians is similarly remarkable. These subreddits require insightful commentary with citations to scholarly sources - anecdata, off-topic banter and trolling are virtually eradicated. Hacker News fosters higher quality discussion than most subreddits because it's smaller and has a much higher floor for the scope successful moderation. But look at this thread: people are throwing around uninformed opinions about basic economics left and right. Outside of technical disussion, Hacker News discussions often fracture into arguments where people talk past each other and reinvent entire fields from first principles. I think HN is nearly as good as you can expect a general discussion forum to be, but the focused, well-moderated subreddits for specific topics are clearly better for useful discussion.
    • collyw 9y ago
      I have seen a few discussions on the change my view subreddit and its better then average, but I would still say its a fair bit lower than the standard of discussion here (at least for the subjects I saw).