I was thinking since this place is so good for thoughtful discussion, it could be good to have set up debates under the debate tag with certain controversial topics. Ideally the poster would just set up the debate in the top without taking either side, and could debate in the comments. Each user could start by stating their own side and backing it up and then let the debate go on from there.
What do you guys think? Or do you think it is too confrontational to do well here?
I dunno about debating. Discussions definitely. But debating implies that you are trying to win the other side over. Instead, we should focus on exploring the idea and cooperatively explore the idea and come to a conclusion. That, IMO, is much more of hubski's style.
But debates might work, depending on how they are set up. I just feel like it might divide the community, which wouldn't be a good thing.