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> Its design promotes the arguments that are most popular, not the ones with the most intrinsic validity or soundness.

How would that be remedied? I think if a large enough group of users ranked arguments on intrinsic validity or soundness, the effect would be indistinguishable from popularity.

Imagine the results of asking everybody in the US to rank music on musical skill and artistic achievement. You would get the Top 40.

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I don't mean that arguments should be ranked on perceived soundness, as determined through democratic voting, but on actual soundness. It may be impossible to remedy this problem through any purely democratic system, but it remains a problem nevertheless.

I don't think this can be remedied via democratic voting. We are thinking of allowing debate admins to show some default perspectives, e.g. atheist vs Christian, as these are more interesting than the avg.

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