> Foster good principles of logical debate within the community
This is the most agonizingly difficult problem to deal with.
Getting people to actually judge arguments on their logical and factual merit is ridiculously difficult. Many do not even seem aware such criteria exists, much less have capability to recognize or respect those traits in opposing arguments. The moment you start touching on politically or emotionally-charged issues like religion and discrimination, fair judgment of opposing logic and facts becomes scarce.
We'd need to vote on votes, dispute reasons for your reasons, have a checklist of user's logic for voting and then filter out users with bad logic history.
We could instead argue in code or in language that can compile, so "[y]ou are punished swiftly for obvious errors." [1]
> Foster good principles of logical debate within the community
This is the most agonizingly difficult problem to deal with.
Getting people to actually judge arguments on their logical and factual merit is ridiculously difficult. Many do not even seem aware such criteria exists, much less have capability to recognize or respect those traits in opposing arguments. The moment you start touching on politically or emotionally-charged issues like religion and discrimination, fair judgment of opposing logic and facts becomes scarce.