I thought I'd draw a mock-up of what we actually ended up with when we discussed a site for raising environmental awareness with Kirke & Thea & Ilya.
We decided that the best way to approach this would be to create an easy-to-use collaborative debate environment, which would filter the hottest topics and allow you to participate by entering into a debate game with a random person from the opposite position to yours, or by challenging someone from the comments section etc.
The debate game screen mock-up is divided into two halves, each participant's half representing their point of view.
There are two types of actions you can perform: you can post an argument (pink) or you can post a response (light blue) to an argument your opponent has come up with. These always appear as parallel text boxes and represent the back and forth discussion about one particular argument a debater has proposed with regard to the topic.
You can add a new parallel argumentation line by clicking "Add New Argument." This way you can compartmentalize a topic into distinct arguments and different perspectives.
You can write directly into the text boxes and you can see what your opponent is writing live.
On top of the screen there is a timer. There is a preset time for completing each parallel line of argumentation. Let's suppose you have 5 minutes for each line of argumentation and response. If you click on "Add New Argument," another 5 minutes will be added to the timer for the purpose of exploring the new line. To prevent abuse, you could also have separate timers for each line.
Once the timer runs out, the debate is closed and the comments section is opened for other users, who might have already been observing the debate beforehand, but didn't have the option of voicing their opinion yet.
The winner of the debate is decided by other users, who get one vote per debate. The results stay hidden to the user until he has cast his vote.
In the comments section you can discuss the different arguments and challenge other users to a new debate.
Each user has his own debate profile that shows statistics about how active he is, his argument/response ratio, win/lose ratio, the history of his positions etc, which would give the community some idea of his credibility.
The debate topics on the site would be laid down by the users, but structured by the moderators. The most popular topics would be suggested to you, so you could use a preexisting debate topic and post under that. I forgot to add a "Rate This Debate" button to the mock-up - this could be useful in terms of gauging what the users hold to be important and filtering accordingly.
So what we came up with instead of an environmental awareness website was really a debate community.
What do you think? Would this work? Do you see potential problems? Would you add or change something?
Let me know in the comments!
We decided that the best way to approach this would be to create an easy-to-use collaborative debate environment, which would filter the hottest topics and allow you to participate by entering into a debate game with a random person from the opposite position to yours, or by challenging someone from the comments section etc.
The debate game screen mock-up is divided into two halves, each participant's half representing their point of view.
There are two types of actions you can perform: you can post an argument (pink) or you can post a response (light blue) to an argument your opponent has come up with. These always appear as parallel text boxes and represent the back and forth discussion about one particular argument a debater has proposed with regard to the topic.
You can add a new parallel argumentation line by clicking "Add New Argument." This way you can compartmentalize a topic into distinct arguments and different perspectives.
You can write directly into the text boxes and you can see what your opponent is writing live.
On top of the screen there is a timer. There is a preset time for completing each parallel line of argumentation. Let's suppose you have 5 minutes for each line of argumentation and response. If you click on "Add New Argument," another 5 minutes will be added to the timer for the purpose of exploring the new line. To prevent abuse, you could also have separate timers for each line.
Once the timer runs out, the debate is closed and the comments section is opened for other users, who might have already been observing the debate beforehand, but didn't have the option of voicing their opinion yet.
The winner of the debate is decided by other users, who get one vote per debate. The results stay hidden to the user until he has cast his vote.
In the comments section you can discuss the different arguments and challenge other users to a new debate.
Each user has his own debate profile that shows statistics about how active he is, his argument/response ratio, win/lose ratio, the history of his positions etc, which would give the community some idea of his credibility.
The debate topics on the site would be laid down by the users, but structured by the moderators. The most popular topics would be suggested to you, so you could use a preexisting debate topic and post under that. I forgot to add a "Rate This Debate" button to the mock-up - this could be useful in terms of gauging what the users hold to be important and filtering accordingly.
So what we came up with instead of an environmental awareness website was really a debate community.
What do you think? Would this work? Do you see potential problems? Would you add or change something?
Let me know in the comments!
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