Discuss With Us is a web2.0 app that is currently still in development, based around the Q&A model we’re all familiar with at this point. Unlike the other Q&A applications we’ve seen, Discuss With Us uses a weighted “passion” system to determine which response suits the question the best. As an example of this I found the questions, “What pet is the best?”. There were several answers already available, but I decided to enter a new one, “Snake”.

After I entered this new answer my passion level for the answer automatically was defaulted at “Middle of the road” which gave it a 7% weight, with the top answer, dog, having a 30% weight. I feel Snakes are way cooler than dogs so I decided to change my passion level to “Hell yes”, which brought the weight up to 12%. This is a really well thought out system which is why I like it.

The site design itself is very plain and leaves a lot to the imagination, and a little more color and navigation wouldn’t hurt at all. When you go to the signup page you’ll see a large disclaimer as it appears that this is actually a sponsored case study done by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which makes it less of a web2.0 app and more of a survey.

Overall the concept is nothing new, but they do their best to give it a new spin.