Long time lurker, finally registered to respond to this.
On controversial matters like race, religion or abortion, no matter what your position is and how sure you are about it, there almost certainly exists someone on the other side who's better educated/informed and just as sure as you. My ideal community site would allow the most extreme opinions, but not let any group jam the signal for others. For example, the Wikipedia page "Race and intelligence" would be much improved if it were split into two pages side by side, each editable by only one of the factions.
That's an interesting perspective. The problem that initially jumps out at me is what to do when there aren't two clear sides to an issue. Any ideas on handling complicated, muddled, and contentious issues with multiple sides?
On controversial matters like race, religion or abortion, no matter what your position is and how sure you are about it, there almost certainly exists someone on the other side who's better educated/informed and just as sure as you. My ideal community site would allow the most extreme opinions, but not let any group jam the signal for others. For example, the Wikipedia page "Race and intelligence" would be much improved if it were split into two pages side by side, each editable by only one of the factions.