I find that trees of claims don’t always work because context gets lost as you traverse the tree.
Imagine we have an claim A supported by B that is supported by C. If I think that C does support B in some cases but is irrelevant when specifically talking about A, there’s no good way to express this. Actually even arguing about relevance of B to A is not really possible, there’s only impact vote, but often that was too limiting to express my point.
To some extent both of those cases can be addressed via comments. However, the comments are not very prominent in the UI, are often used for meta discussion instead, and don’t contribute to the scoring and visualization.
One idea that I thought about is creating an additional claim that states how B is relevant to A (and then it can have further sub-claims). However, “hows” are not binary claims, so they wouldn’t fit well into the format and into the visualization. It seems like complicating the model this way won’t be worth it for the limited improvement that we’re likely to see.
I find that trees of claims don’t always work because context gets lost as you traverse the tree.
Imagine we have an claim A supported by B that is supported by C. If I think that C does support B in some cases but is irrelevant when specifically talking about A, there’s no good way to express this. Actually even arguing about relevance of B to A is not really possible, there’s only impact vote, but often that was too limiting to express my point.
To some extent both of those cases can be addressed via comments. However, the comments are not very prominent in the UI, are often used for meta discussion instead, and don’t contribute to the scoring and visualization.
One idea that I thought about is creating an additional claim that states how B is relevant to A (and then it can have further sub-claims). However, “hows” are not binary claims, so they wouldn’t fit well into the format and into the visualization. It seems like complicating the model this way won’t be worth it for the limited improvement that we’re likely to see.