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/r/moderatepolitics on reddit is halfway decent. It's definitely liberal, but the way people discuss things is moderate, if that makes sense. It's not complete
by asdfman123 6y ago
/r/moderatepolitics on reddit is halfway decent. It's definitely liberal, but the way people discuss things is moderate, if that makes sense. It's not complete partisanship, and occasionally beliefs get questioned.
Reddit and Hacker News both solve the problem of "how do you host a site to allow for political discussion?"
To get good debate, you have to curate a social community by effective moderation. You see it on reddit all the time -- some communities are utter trash, and some are much better. It's a social problem, not a technological one.
- klenwell 6y agoA variation on this theme: make people frame their comments as falsifiable predictions. This is what Philip Tetlock advocates with his Superforecasting concept and sorta implemented here: https://www.gjopen.com/ https://www.gjopen.com/ The hitch: making good falsifiable or verifiable predictions is tough and time-consuming. Evaluating and judging them requires even more moderation. And let's face it: most online comments are not about advancing the public discourse. They're about getting a quick dopamine hit.
- afarrell 6y agoSometimes, it is about thinking-out-loud about an idea. That is to say, getting multiple dopamine hits as you type a long comment and imagine people on the internet being impressed by a comment you wouldn't be motivated enough to journal about.
- chishaku 6y agoThis is a really good point.
- phobosanomaly 6y agoThat also opens up the ability to weight comments from a given user based on their success in predicting political outcomes. If you have a high rate of success predicting outcomes, it's likely you have a good grasp on events in that broad category, and your comments are likely more valuable insights on-average.