This is an interesting and worthwhile idea, though TBH I’m not sure I agree with the premise.
The whole “rationality” thing provides more of a framework that a status quo. People who make posts like “Well, I’m a rationalist and a theist, so there! Ha!” do tend to get voted down (when they lack evidence/argument), but I hardly see a problem with this. This community strongly encourages people to provide supporting evidence or argumentation and (interestingly) seems to have no objections to extremely long posts/replies.I have yet to see a well-thought-out, on-topic post get voted down. Admittedly some top-levels (including mine!) never get voted up, but that doesn’t seem to be the result of a status quo being unwilling to consider them; it’s usually that they aren’t totally cogent, they aren’t well written, or they’re simply too minute to interest people.
I would actually be at least as curious to know what, specifically, has run into this problem to date, as I would be to hear ideas people have wanted to throw out there, but thought would be rejected out of hand.
This is an interesting and worthwhile idea, though TBH I’m not sure I agree with the premise.
The whole “rationality” thing provides more of a framework that a status quo. People who make posts like “Well, I’m a rationalist and a theist, so there! Ha!” do tend to get voted down (when they lack evidence/argument), but I hardly see a problem with this. This community strongly encourages people to provide supporting evidence or argumentation and (interestingly) seems to have no objections to extremely long posts/replies.I have yet to see a well-thought-out, on-topic post get voted down. Admittedly some top-levels (including mine!) never get voted up, but that doesn’t seem to be the result of a status quo being unwilling to consider them; it’s usually that they aren’t totally cogent, they aren’t well written, or they’re simply too minute to interest people.
I would actually be at least as curious to know what, specifically, has run into this problem to date, as I would be to hear ideas people have wanted to throw out there, but thought would be rejected out of hand.