What is that for?

Let's establish the reality, despite the tyranny of prevailing opinion and sentiment. The portal is intended to be a space where users strive to formulate the most useful set of views from the perspective of the group to which they belong. This will be achieved by aggregating content, flagging it as true or false, and sorting it by relevance.

Thanks to the efforts of users, the recipient will receive the most relevant information on a topic, spending as little time as possible. Social media algorithms and recipient habits determine the existence of information bubbles. Media companies exploit these mechanisms to shape the recipient's views, which are beneficial to the company, but not necessarily beneficial to the recipient. As a result, the recipient is convinced that they are acting for the common good, but achieve results that are counterproductive to their intentions.

Before the portal's creation, discussions were perpetually unfinished – each side's final word was spoken within its bubble, never reaching those outside. As a result, each person was convinced they were right and the other side was an idiot believing lies. The obvious result is growing polarization, which benefits the "managers of the dominant bubble." Strong polarization prevents jumping to another bubble because it requires changing too many views. This cements the consortium's position.

The portal aims to change this state of affairs. By aggregating the most important arguments, data, and facts on a given issue, a compendium of knowledge will be created that can be used to make decisions or change opinions. Media corporations will lose their monopoly on shaping opinions. Information bubbles will be burst, topics will be thoroughly discussed, and the method of repeating lies will no longer be effective.

The portal's motto is a paraphrase of a passage from John Stuart Mill's book "On Liberty." Mill believed that imposing views by prohibiting discussion is a form of tyranny. In my subjective opinion, media corporations, taking advantage of freedom of speech and the power of their reach, have shaped their audiences into views favorable to them and then deemed it "unacceptable" to challenge them. People engaging in discussions in these areas are marginalized. Audiences are bombarded with questionable data. Content that challenges questionable data is lost in the thicket of new content that aligns with the line.

John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the 19th century. He was a naturalist, utilitarian, and liberal. Utilitarianism is an ethical theory developed by his predecessor, Jeremy Bentham. He contributed to the study of scientific methodology.

Utilitarianism, as defined by John Stuart Mill, is an ethical theory that assumes that the best actions are those that bring the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people. According to Mill, utilitarianism allows—literally—to calculate whether something is good or bad. A simplified method is to conduct an intellectual experiment: simply imagine the full spread of the behavior under study in society and then determine the level of happiness and suffering in the group. If the long-term balance is positive, then the behavior is morally good. It is worth mentioning preferential utilitarianism, which assumes that happiness is the satisfaction of preferences, not pleasure. In this view, any behavior that leads to the extinction of a group, after full spread, is bad because people have a strong preference to live and survive as a group. In the classical approach, the extinction of a group is bad to the extent that it deprives future generations of potential pleasures and causes suffering to the survivors (e.g., grief for loved ones). But pure suffering (e.g., torture) is judged as worse than mere nonexistence. Thus, stealing is wrong because, if widespread, it will lead to chaos, group separation, reduced efficiency, and ultimately, greater suffering and reduced pleasure. For the utilitarian, homosexuality is more wrong than theft because the group's extinction is certain, not merely possible. Widespread homosexuality guarantees the group's extinction, depriving future generations of potential pleasures. Stealing will only divide the group and reduce efficiency, but the group will survive. In the preferential approach, homosexuality is wrong because it violates the group's survival preference.

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Content tagging

Posts are flagged. Users who comment on content can influence the type of flag assigned. Comments deemed relevant, meaning those containing sources for "hard data," will be flagged by the page author and displayed first. Content is created by users, while the order and visibility of content are subjectively determined by the website administrator. This is intended to avoid information chaos.

Display order

Content should be sorted so that users receive the most important information first. The standard order of the homepage algorithm is as follows:

1. Statistics and other "hard" data. The higher the level of research, the more accurate the measures and methods used, the larger the research sample, and the more skillful "biting into the heart of the problem," the higher the ranking.
2. Expert opinions, collected knowledge, content based on data but containing some form of interpretation or opinion.
3. Everyday examples. They say little about the overall process, but can highlight certain aspects.
4. Humorous, informal content that is not intended to convey any substance but is relevant to the topic. This category will also include content containing opinions, without citing sources or referencing statistics.

There will be exceptions to these general guidelines. If the page author deems some content important (or amusing) enough to be higher in the hierarchy, it will be higher. Typically, this is to ease the reader's mind or highlight content censored on other sites.

Content in the "News" tab is sorted chronologically to highlight ongoing discussions and new content. The dates of posts and comments are taken into account. This will make it easier for users to notice changes in content status, for example, to false information.