The Concept

Hey y'all,

I've created a wiki (there's a link to it on the right side!) to try and see if it's possible to have polite discourse over the wiki format. Basically, how it works is this. Someone starts with a topic and a statement on that topic (hopefully an inflammatory yet what you see as true statement, they work best!). Then who ever sees it, and disagrees or thinks it is missing an important point must either:

1. Leave the sentence there, and place a sentence above it that is modified so that the new sentence both reflects what you see as your view, and what you see as the view of the original sentence.
2. If you can't make the above work (they just seem too incompatible), put your sentence above the one below, and write "Incompatible". Someone else will attempt to merge them!

After a massive creative endeavor, at the end of it all, we should have a collective statement on a topic that is amenable to all involved! This is the experiment.

I'll be monitoring the site so that I can see if people are following these simple rules. Yes, that's fascist, but let me put it this way. If you come into this space, you have agreed to respect the rights of others in the community to an opinion, so if you disrespect that, you should not be able to contribute to this community. Let's come to a consensus!

Tim