| When you start a debate, voting is normally not enabled. Voting on our site is different, we explicitly ask for the impact a claim has. But we agree, the total average of votes, with public discussions, isn't very useful, not because popularity contest, BUT, if we assume a fair split of society on a topic, because the thesis will be voted two = middle and most claims too. People basically cancel each other out and you end up with a no strong opinion either way for most claims. Which is boring. You could add standard deviation, but that would still not be great. Thus we are going to introduce a way to visualize votes, by separating them into cohorts. We had perspective tagging, but that has it's own set of features. So really many topics don't have middle ground, the debate IS binary: Is climate change real / man-made. Should abortion be legal. Is there a God. Should homosexuals be allowed to marry/adopt. If you made these into multis, not much is gained. And then, exactly for your example about drug legislation we have a multi theses discussion, check it out :) and you can add new theses or claims:
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