Who likes this new mediocre format?

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Original Question

Congratulations, Doc!

You've turned one of the great websites for dialogue, debate, understanding and argument into nothing but blubbering mediocrity. Your text limits disallow the formation of a decent syllogism. Your commentary restraints forming syllogisms into empty limericks

I'm truly for sorry for you. This is Murphy's law in action. You've taken your own important platform and turned into a clown car. But, then again, this is the Trump age.

You should fire whoever is advising you.

Comments on Question

While eliminating any credit for contribution? WTF? I'm trying to promote you and your book? According to your own creed, if you teach someone to think logically you teach them to think logically for a life time. But, now, you're saying that if two people debate and it's not interesting to others it doesn't matter. Well, debate starts between two people. If others don't want to listen that's up to them. But why negate the entire forum? The brilliance of the site is to get others to think!

I am fine with the format. And I do not think it's mediocre because of a limitation of quantity. Quantity is not quality.

Dr Bo, I agree with Michael, on a site where you have built up an academic image, and had various well-qualified people contribute, I don't think you should set an arbitrary limit. Also, I've searched for a comment to a past reply but it has gone. When you changed the site did you discard comments that didn't fit the original new limit? On the plus side, I like the way we can see further old questions by just scrolling down. Much better than the old 3 questions per page format.

It's amazing we have to remind extremely smart people that this is Bo's site and he can do whatever he wants here that's true to his purpose and values. It's easy for any of us to go to GoDaddy right now and get a domain for $12 a year, and managed Wordpress site for $1 a month, and install buddyPress for free and boom, you have your own forum and you can run it according to your purpose and values.

Bo is here donating his free time to clarify, and whatever else he pleases.

Bo is very polite, empathetic, considerate and a model for us all.

Just doubled the length of the comments. We'll see how this works out.

Answers

I like it. In fact, i am active again after 3 years of inactivity. The old site was too slow.

The website is not buggy anymore. Nice user interface. Things are easy to understand and use. As to the format, it seems nice.

To answer your question, I like the new format.

You've turned one of the great websites for dialogue, debate, understanding

This was never supposed to be a debate site and I don't want it to be a debate site; it is a question and answers site.

nothing but blubbering mediocrity.

Not even sure what this is supposed to mean. The website is blubbering? The new format made us all blubbering overnight?

Your text limits disallow the formation of a decent syllogism.

If you are referring to the comments, the comments should be long enough for that purpose, just not rants. I will certainly consider making the comments longer if needed while still avoiding encouraging ideological rants completely void of anything to do with logical fallacies.

I'm truly for sorry for you.

No need to be. I am doing great.

If you have any specific feedback that you feel would improve the site, other than longer comments, happy to hear it. You are a valuable member of this community and I appreciate your contributions and participation.

I like being able to click on my email notification and go right to the highlighted comment

Not sure about the format, but it's just something to get used to imo

Time will tell about the kinds of discussions; whether they focus on fallacies (as I hope) or devolve into arguments about the subject to which a fallacy may or may not apply.

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