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Interesting. When I first thought about it, the concept of controversy, trouble, fight stood out. I kept thinking how I could declare a side the winning side and stamp a "Fact/Fiction" label on the statement at the end of a set period (ie a week after the statement is posed provided the commenting activity slows down).

I also thought long and hard about people who just wanna stir things up by constantly posting new statements, based on recent news (I even thought of writing a bot initially to generate such statements off news sites).

So what you're describing sounds very familiar to me.