So we're off, but not as quickly as I'd hoped. The format is going well, as everyone is using the standard form and being fairly polite to each other, though, I must say, the debate is a bit tame. The difficulty is that the consensus statements being produced are just plain boring! For instance, the "City Design for Chumps" topic has ended up with "All aspects of city development should be designed or redesigned with the final objective of reducing the necessity of personal automobiles." Pleeeeasse! Perhaps the issue here is that people are hestitant to get out there and throw in some serious detail into their rebuttals so as not to get their noses bitten off. But people, the devil is in the details! That's where it gets interesting, where we can hash out how we want this world to look like, one topic at a time, all consensus-like. I, for one, am going to get back in there and put some controversial details in, so people can actually start disagreeing a bit!
En garde!
Tim
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I see what you're trying to do here, but you can't make people disagree vehemently and then all come to a consensus at the end.
This is all a game to you, you idea dictator. I'm on to you.
Oh no you don't. All I'm trying to do is facilitate having these consensus statements become more detailed and robust by having more people weigh in on them!
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