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Oct 31, 2015

If the topics chosen are VERY careful, I think it can work.

The issue is that it will discourage some from commenting at all, because they may not really want to get into a long issue (and are worried that specific statements might encourage responses they don't want to get into).

I think instead of "argument", which implies something more formally Aristotelian, it should be "a point of contribution". That could be a comparison, a metaphor, a poem, anything that wouldn't be a formal argument but (aims to) elucidate.

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Oct 31, 2015

Right, currently users can flag talks as no arguments or something enriching the discussion. Obviously, if there are no arguments, but there's a tiny bit of contribution, it's ok. Basically, this rule is here only to protect us from posts like "he's a liar, period".

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Oct 31, 2015

This is assuming that the person in question can still VOTE for the appropriate category, correct?

It seems that there should be a community standards page, like Wikipedia has several of (or TVTropes or...) that describes prominently what people are expected to do as a result of community standards.

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Nov 1, 2015

A user whose talk was deleted as no arguments is not restricted from any actions on the site. Including voting and posting another opinion on the same topic. The user also gets a notification, explanation, and a link to our guidelines.

Our guidelines are at opi.wiki/help.

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Nov 1, 2015

I don't see a clear path to the guidelines from these topic sections.

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Nov 2, 2015

We cannot flood our users with too much info. Even if we did put a clear link there, almost no one would read it anyway. No-contribution opinions happen very rarely, and if they do, the user gains a reason (and a clear link) to read the stuff.

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