Comments on: Stand for your opinions at Standpoint http://claycook.wordpress.com/2006/02/01/stand-for-your-opinions-with-standpoint/ Internet Entrepreneur and Angel Investor Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:59:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Gentry Underwood http://claycook.wordpress.com/2006/02/01/stand-for-your-opinions-with-standpoint/#comment-16 Gentry Underwood Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:02:14 +0000 http://claycook.wordpress.com/2006/02/01/stand-for-your-opinions-with-standpoint/#comment-16 Hey Clay -- thanks for the review and the encouragement. We've been very excited by the number of people who have already started using Standpoint. Our users teach us so much -- both about the site and about what they believe. I wanted to clarify one piece of the design: our hope is not for shallow, brief reasons why people believe what they do (at the cost of depth), but rather to encourage them to make that case with other claims. We believe that every argument for a belief is really a set of other beliefs. Every time you take a stand you can back it up with (among other things) individual claims and arguments (claim AND claim AND ...). Each of those claims can in turn be backed up, until you've made your case in a sort of outline form that is easy for others to interact with and build onto. This concept is central to our 'value add', because in the long run we believe that it is these relationships that are particularly interesting and useful for learning and discourse. We hope to be rolling out some powerful tools for building and visualizing these relationships in the near future. -gentry Hey Clay — thanks for the review and the encouragement. We’ve been very excited by the number of people who have already started using Standpoint. Our users teach us so much — both about the site and about what they believe.

I wanted to clarify one piece of the design: our hope is not for shallow, brief reasons why people believe what they do (at the cost of depth), but rather to encourage them to make that case with other claims. We believe that every argument for a belief is really a set of other beliefs.

Every time you take a stand you can back it up with (among other things) individual claims and arguments (claim AND claim AND …). Each of those claims can in turn be backed up, until you’ve made your case in a sort of outline form that is easy for others to interact with and build onto.

This concept is central to our ‘value add’, because in the long run we believe that it is these relationships that are particularly interesting and useful for learning and discourse. We hope to be rolling out some powerful tools for building and visualizing these relationships in the near future.

-gentry

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