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Sorry about this, we actually don't use your friends list at all, it's just part of the default Facebook permissions. Facebook connect is purely used to simplify signup/login and the site is never going to automatically post on your wall or contact your friends. There is actually a discussion re. gender fields here - https://www.saysaw.org/topics/48-web-services-should-not-ask... you may want to add to

Interesting ideas - definitely going to give this more thought. Saysaw wasn't initially intended to be such a formal process as this would alienate the majority of users (I can imagine my mum trying to use StackOverflow), but theres definitely value in something along the lines of what you described. It would be a completely different audience & business model though, probably similar to stackoverflow's, and would probably take a bit more than a week to build :-) Email info@saysaw.org if you want to discuss more

All good points @dmlorenzetti - bear in mind it was designed/built on zero budget in under a week so issues like you mention will take time to properly solve. The site is getting a lot of interest now so we'll hopefully have the resources to solve, or at least attempt to solve some of the more pressing conceptual issues.

Definitely a good point itafroma. The idea is that people can post their own opinions that can be agreed or disagreed with, but you're right the homepage should be curated. I certainly don't agree with a lot of what's on there, but a good topic is one which gains interest and provokes a useful discussion.

Thanks md224, yes thats a great idea, something like you described is being planned right now. Definitely a challenge to implement well while keeping it an easy/fun/accessible interface. Typical users would get totally lost in something like stackoverflow.

Appreciate the feedback guys - i should be clear though that the site was designed & built by one developer (me) in one week with a total spend of around $90 on the ssl cert. more of an experiment initially but is evolving into potentially a new concept. Not necessarily trying to create the perfect architecture/semantics for a debate, more aiming to make it fun & constructive - a place where people can quickly see the best ofboth sides of a topic/argument. But as i say its still evolving

Thanks bgnm, will increase the contrast. I built it in a week by myself so theres still a lot to do!