Yup It would be better if there was a training level or two. Where there preset examples that only allowed you to agree or disagree and then told you the correct response and why. (ie explained that it was valid and why, or a straw man and why, or BtQ and why) then with clear cut considered examples of the errors people could then learn to form more concise logical argument construction.
As for Us I’m not sure it would be all that use full as such a formal ridged structure would seem stifling. That and our Mods and participants do a good job of limiting digressions and pointing out logical errors.
If I was to take anything from this then adding an ”Agree’,'Nutral' ”Disagree’ buttons to each post (next to reply, Peek) might be interesting . When each person views a post for the first time a neutral vote is added to the post’s agreement factor, by default. Then if the viewer wished to indicate a strong agreement or disagreement with the statement they click the appropriate button, changing their vote from the neutral default to their choice. The viewer could change their vote any time .
The post would also display an agreement meter that would display the swing either way from neutral the number of views and the numbers for against and neutral.
This would allow people to give certain comments the thumbs up or down without needing to post, and also allow everyone to see the board’s overall feelings on the thread.
This could be expanded to users and they could have a agreement value based on the total agreement values of all their posts.
Needs work and polish but worth a bit of thought I think.