The current online discussion forums cause more conflict than they solve. There are many reasons that these online discussion forums are so frustrating. Internet forums that do not try and organize the different aspects of a debate are much like an argument where no one is in charge, and everyone can instantly change the subject. Sure the internet offers everyone a voice, but a voice without order is just noise.
A car with multiple searing weals would not work. Thread type discussion forums that allow each new post to change the subject will never get anywhere.
However we can allow everyone to “talk” at once if we allow users to organize their contributions. For instance if we give one page per issue, we could then allow users to interact with that issue by posting their comments within a column of reasons to agree or within the reasons to disagree column.
This simple innovation of allowing people to tag the innovation of allowing people to tag their post as a reason to agree or disagree will revolutionize the way we debate, come to conclusions, and think.
Allowing people to categorize their arguments as a reason to agree or disagree will allow us to compare the number of reasons to agree or disagree with a belief.
Of course the quality of the reasons to agree or disagree with a belief is as important as the number of reasons to agree or disagree with that belief. There are many ways to evaluate or allow users to the quality of a reason to agree or disagree with an idea.
Counting scheme’s can be devised to reflect the cumulative perceived validity of all the reasons to agree or disagree with an idea. For example each reason to agree or disagree could be assigned a value based on user feedback resulting in a numerical value for each reason, and therefore a total score for the reasons to agree vs. disagree.
An additional and more elegant way to evaluate the validity of each reason to agree or disagree is to allow users to provide reasons to agree and disagree with them.
This type of discussion forum will allow a significant leap forward by integrating statistical analysis techniques with debate forums. For instance confidence intervals can be assigned to each belief based on the number of reasons posted, the percent difference between reasons to agree vs. disagree, the amount of variance between.
Using lists that try to get to the main point quickly, do not allow for advertising. And that is what is being done when someone uses a lot of words to describe their idea… they are advertising. But when you use lists of reasons to agree or disagree, the issue becomes clear. You see the complexity. People don't want to see that there are good reasons to agree or disagree with both sides. They want to stick with their prejudices and previous conclusions. They want to gloss over everything with a nice wordy paragraph that hides the shortcomings of their thinking with wordiness.
The Need For This Site
Some say that God is order and that Satan is chaos. I think having reasons to agree and disagree with an idea on separate pages, or in a thread-type format is confusing. For example, some people think Mitt Romney is bad, and they give reasons to agree with their point of view on their websites. People that like Mitt Romney do the same thing on their website. I think we should bring all of their reasons to one webpage and organize them. I would especially like for Mitt Romney blogers to integrate the things they post by subject on this site. I think if we organize Mitt Romney data in such a way that it promotes order, that it will lead to one logical conclusion: he should be our next president.
"Everything should be as simple as it is; but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
I would like to create an internet revolution with Governor Mitt Romney's campaign for the presidency in 2008. I'm sure a lot of you would too. Some people think that Howard Dean had an affective online campaign for president. The fact that Howard Dean was able to send millions of spam messages every day does not impress me. These people could have just went to his website and read his ideas. Thousands of Idiots are able to send out millions of Viagra advertisements every day, and we don't try and make presidents out of them. Substance is more important than just using a new technology.
Some people site the number of Governor Mitt Romney blogs as early evidence of his appeal. Or perhaps we should pay attention to how he is doing on very unscientific polls.
I was one of the creators of an early Mitt Romney blog. I wanted to preserve Governor Mitt Romney's press releases, and enter them into cyberspace in such a manner that people could respond and interact with his words. Over the past 6 months I've received about 3 or so comments. I don't know about you, but I am not impressed with our ability to all recycle the same old news stories. Aleister Crowley said, "To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter". I'm not saying that what we are righting on our blogs is canned chatter, I'm just saying that the format of the blog does not lend itself well to improvement or organization.
It would be impossible for someone to read every single Mitt Romney blog post on the internet, besides there would be lots of repetition between all the Romney blogs.
Contrary to the field of dreams, just because you build it, does not mean they will come.
With the proper funding, this website could become much more than the typical discussion group, or blog. Click on the explanation to your right, to learn more. Look around this site, and join me in the Mitt Romney internet revolution!
This is my plan:
Put all of Mitt Romney's press releases, and quotes from those press releases on this page. Done.
Organize all of Mitt Romney's press releases by topic. Done.
Organize all of Mitt Romney's quotes by topic. Almost done. Now that I have this much romney content on this page, all I have to do is put brackets around any word, such as education and it will lead you, the reader to all of Romney's press releases and quotes on education. Now my last and final step it to:
Organize Reasons to agree and disagree with Romney's statements, in order to show the usefulness of the online discussion format that I advocate.
Policy Scores from Cost-Benefit Likilihood Analysis, and interest validty analysis
Likilihood of Costs and Benefits from Argument and Evedence Scores
Automated Conflict Resolution, and Cost-Benefit Analysis
We are a political party that organizes all the ideas and arguments by subject, and lets them battle in a survival of the fittest death-match.
We are a political party that supports candidates that promises to make their decisions based on online cost benefit and idea evaluation algorithms. They just have to use a forum that ties the strength of their conclusion to the strength of their assumption, so that when you strengthen or weaken an assumption you also strengthen or weaken conclusions based on the assumption.
We have had the technological ability to create a world based on logic for too long. It is about time we build a rational political party based on the assumption that we support plans, conclusions, activities, and policies that can gather evidence based support, and that we don't do things that don't stand up to analysis.
We will conduct open, online, cost/benefit analysis of each issue. It is about time.
Welcome to the website for the best political party of all time, and the future of reason based decisions making.
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