Feud for Thought 对比 Disbate 的使用情况和统计数据

A feud is a debate between two users and it consists of a name, a claim and an end date. It works like this: someone (we call him “proponent”) starts a feud by proposing a name, a claim and an end date to the other person; the other party (known as “opponent”) has to agree with the name, agree to oppose the claim and agree on the end date of the whole affair (the opponent can ask for changes to any of these initial terms and then it’s the proponent’s turn to either agree or propose new changes, and so on); once the terms are agreed upon, the feud becomes active and the two parties will try to convince each other to concede by the end date in order to win.  Feud for Thought allows users to register an account, set up various profile elements, add and block users, follow other users to get their publicly available content, challenge their friends to feuds, vote, like and share other users' feuds and even engage in feuds with random other users through a special type of feud called an open feud.  Of course, since this is a platform where one's feuds with someone could potentially be viewed by every other user, Feud for Thought offers the possibility of hiding the proponent's and opponent's respective profiles by means of another element to a feud: anonymity. When creating a new feud, the two parties have to now agree whether the feud should be public or private (private feuds still get voted on and appear in searches, but the involved users' profile cannot be accessed by third parties through the feud screen. If a feud is public, the protagonists' profiles are accessible to others and this constitutes a good avenue for potential followers to flock someone's banners!