The “Long Now Foundation Debate format” is a really poor idea for the vast majority of forums in my humble opinion. Most of the time when I am on a forum, I see something someone says and reply to the question and get right back out. I don’t want to have to spend the time to think about THEIR position, I just want to make my own. If people had to spend time thinking about what every poster before them (or even just the OP of the topic) said, forum usage would disappear overnight from user abandonment.
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