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Webpages...

Explanation: Webpages as reasons to agree or disagree

Google assigns each website a score. We could use an algorithms that takes a webpages score (on a scale from 0 to 100%) and multiplies it by the percentage of agreement there is that that webpage supports an idea.

Obviously this would not be said to promote truth, just reflect in a usable way what "the internet" believes is worthy of linking to.

It is not a perfect way to promote an idea, but it is better than nothing and produce some interesting results.

I would love help from programmers who know how to get a website to implement an algorithm that gives a score to ideas based on the number of reasons there are that agree or disagree with the idea.

Ideas with lots of reasons to agree with it, and few reasons to disagree with it, would be considered strong. However each reason would also have a score based on the number of reasons that agree with it.

Comparison to the Google Algorithm:

Google evaluates websites, and gives them a score. I would evaluate ideas and give them a score.

Google uses the number of links to a website, as a vote for how good that website is. I would use the number of reasons to agree with an idea as a vote for that idea, and the number of reasons to disagree with an idea as a vote against that idea.

Because not all web links are well thought out endorsements of a site's content, Google gives more weight to a link from a website that lots of people link to. Because not all reasons follow valid logic, I would assign more weight to a reason that has more reasons to agree with it (and fewer reasons to disagree with it), all the way back so the complete strength of the logic trees that are attempted to be used to support an idea, are evaluated, and represented by a continual refinement process.