My question is about science crowd competition sites such as spaceappschallenge.org , xprize.com or innocentive.com . These organizations are trying to develop new organizational models for science, and I think the initiative to include the general public is great. However, it relies only on the individual talent of the best individuals in the crowd and does nothing to generate collective intelligence. Source: over 1 year ago

I was a solver on a different team for the netflix challenge. Our team didn't win the grand prize. I would have expected that a blog post to discuss how this was structured. Netflix contracted with innocentive [1], which is a website for solvers, and contracting to that website expanded Netflix's reach to the available pool of solvers. I'm not sure if they would have been able to get the same level of... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

LMAO, this is the most debateart.com shit I've seen in a LONG time. Source: 12 months ago

While it still is far from perfect, if you want more structured debates then debateart.com is a good option from what I can tell. It seems to be a clone of debate.org with a bunch of people that used to be members there but have moved since the site started to collapse (due to bugs, poor moderation, etc.). Source: about 3 years ago