@vasgo Hey, that's a great question! I believe there's a couple different approaches to this question. Firstly I would say that as someone who is a debater as well, I've gone through a myriad of reddit threads, discord servers, slack channels and more, but I always arrive at a certain conclusion: they don't work. Manytimes, the threads are very clogged and unstructured. Everything becomes one big bundle and it's often hard to track who is saying what, and where the conversation is at. As opposed to this system, Debate on the Daily not only keeps things locked in terms of argumentation, but it keeps everything separate. This makes everything a lot cleaner and more simple to understand. The second approach is accessibility. On a reddit thread or any other platform for that matter, they always have rules. You either have to be in the server or thread for a certain time period, you have to acquire a certain number of members, all in all there is some kind of caveat in many of these larger servers. Debate on the Daily has two solutions. Not only does it remove this obstacle by not having any rules, but it completely bypasses the course by removing authentication as well. If you don't feel safe providing your information or don't want to remember passwords, no worries! It's all authentication free and everything is kept anonymous, so your opinion is kept your own without having it being publicly exposed if you do not want it to. Hopefully that answers your question, but if not, feel free to ask on!

@vasgo Good question! There's two key aspects to the track - argumentation and responses. The way the app is configured, is that there are 2 different screens which the topics channel of the app is distributed into. One screen is adding topics and the other is responding to existing topics. The adding topics channel starts off the process as text inputs. This means that it is completely user controlled and acts similar to a form. The second screen is when you go to the topics forum and click on a topic, the inputs from the previous screen are embedded as text, meaning that you cannot edit them. you can only add responses. Multiple users can add onto the user responses text inputs as these do not get transferred into non-editable text. The purpose of doing so is to maintain structure and not hinder the original arguments. Thereafter, however many people would like to express their perspectives on the resolution or arguments can do so. It's a bit confusing, but does that clear it up?

Vas

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Congrats on the launch. Why would I use it instead of starting / joining a thread on Reddit, for example?

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Sashv Dave

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@sashv_dave Interesting, thanks! How do you keep things locked in term of argumentation, though? You start with them 'hardcoded', right - but what if the responses start to go places after that?

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