I'm interested to see how it evolves!<p>I've been a big fan of ChangeMyView(<a href="https://www.changemyview.co/" rel="nofollow">https://www.changemyview.co/</a>) and Intelligence Squared (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/iqsquared" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/iqsquared</a>) and this seems like potentially a great combination of both!<p>I think polling people before the debate to get the "initial odds" and then after to see how the consensus has shifted and combining that with some sort of score like CMW does would go a long way to advance the gamification!
I've had something like this idea for a long time and I have a feeling it's one of those ideas in the idea-o-sphere that lots of people have that is either impossible to implement or get traction on(I have a feeling the latter). Maybe it's because people don't want to see someone win an argument, they just want to vocalize their opinions as loudly as possible?<p>Anyways, what is your strategic advantage? How do you imagine debatable progressing? Could it ever be as big as one of the social media networks, or at least a well known niche? Are there competitors who've done something similar?
Some existing alternatives<p><a href="https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Should_animal_testing_be_legal%3F" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Should_animal_testing_be_leg...</a><p><a href="https://idebate.org/debatabase/environment-animals-philosophy-ethics-science-science-general/house-would-ban-animal" rel="nofollow">https://idebate.org/debatabase/environment-animals-philosoph...</a><p>What's the difference vs a reddit poll?
Interesting idea. I agree with above users in that a better comment management system could be created to make debates more clear. I could see this being used within corporations to debate ideas.