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What is this?

You're arguing with someone. Neither of you will budge. Post both sides here, send the link, and let strangers decide.

You write a question and the two possible answers. You get a link. Send it to anyone — the person you're arguing with, a group chat, wherever. Everyone who opens it taps the side they agree with, and immediately sees how the vote is going.

No account. No email. No app to install. It takes about twenty seconds.

How do I start an argument?

• Write the question. Up to 140 characters. Keep it to one thing. "Is a hotdog a sandwich?" works. "Is a hotdog a sandwich and also who should do the dishes" does not.
• Write the two sides. Up to 60 characters each. These are the two buttons people will tap, so make them clearly different from each other.
• Press "Get a verdict". Your link appears straight away. Copy it and send it.

One tip that matters more than anything else: the argument needs at least a handful of votes to mean anything. Send the link to actual people. A link nobody opens gets nobody's opinion.

How does voting work?

Tap the side you agree with. That's it. The result appears immediately — the bar fills to show the split, and you're told whether you're with the majority.

One vote per browser, per argument. You can't vote twice on the same argument from the same browser. You can vote on as many different arguments as you like.

You cannot change your vote once it's cast. Sorry — that's how the count stays honest.

Is it really anonymous?

Yes, and here is exactly what that means, rather than just the word.

• There is no sign-up. You are never asked for a name, an email address, a phone number, or a date of birth.
• Nobody can see how you voted. Not other people, not the person who posted the argument, and not us. We store how many votes each side has. We do not store a list of who chose what.
• Your IP address isn't kept. It's used for a few seconds to stop one machine flooding the site, and then it's gone.
• One cookie, holding a random number. That's the only thing stored on your device. It exists so you can't vote twice on the same argument. It isn't used for advertising and there are no tracking scripts on this site at all.
• Your information is never sold. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. That's a commitment, written into the privacy policy.

The trade-off, stated plainly: because there's no account, there's no password to lose — but also no way for us to recognise you on a new phone. Your list of "arguments you started" lives in your browser. Clear your browser data and that list is gone, though the arguments themselves stay online.

"Provably yours" — what does that mean?

The site says your argument is "provably yours". That's a real thing, not marketing, and it's worth understanding. Here's how it works, using nothing technical.

You get this free, automatically, on everything you post. You don't have to do anything or pay anything.

What it proves and what it doesn't — this part matters, so we're not going to be vague about it:

• It does prove that this exact text existed, in this exact form, at that moment.
• It doesn't prove you were the first person to think of the idea.
• It doesn't stop anyone posting something similar.
• It isn't a copyright registration, a trademark, or a patent. If you need one of those, you need a lawyer, not a website.

Why bother, then? Because "I said that first, here's a dated receipt anyone can check" is a genuinely useful thing to have, and almost nowhere gives it to you for free.

Can I check a receipt myself?

Yes, and you should not have to trust us to do it. The key needed to check any receipt is published openly, the check runs on your own machine with standard tools, and it keeps working even if this site vanishes tomorrow. Here is exactly how, with the commands.

If the receipt is free, what on earth am I paying for?

It is worth saying plainly, because an older version of this site said otherwise: paying adds no proof. It does not make your authorship stronger, more legal, or more permanent. The free receipt already does all the proving there is to do. If you buy the certificate, buy it because you want the document, not because you think it protects you better. It doesn't.

What costs money?

Two things, both optional, both one-off. Nothing here is a subscription. Nothing renews, and there is nothing to cancel. Everything described above is free and always will be.

Take a featured slot — $5

There are only ten. When they're all taken you can't buy one, and the page tells you when the next one frees up. We could sell an unlimited number and put everyone "at the top", but then the top would mean nothing and everyone who paid would have been sold the same lie.

Worth it if your argument is real but nobody's voting. Not worth it if you can just send the link to twenty people yourself — that works better and costs nothing.

Because it starts working immediately, this can't be refunded once placement has begun. If somebody else takes the last slot while you're on the payment page, you're refunded automatically — you're never charged for a slot you didn't get.

Print-ready certificate — $4.99

Every argument gets a shareable certificate for nothing. What $4.99 buys is the version worth putting on a wall: bigger, at print resolution, and without the "sharing copy" line across the bottom.

To be completely straight about it: this is a nicer file, not a stronger claim. It adds no legal weight and no extra proof of authorship, because your free receipt already covers that. It is a decorative object, and the document says as much on its own face.

If the download fails or the document is wrong, email us and we will fix it or refund you. Once you have downloaded a working file it can't be refunded, for the same reason a printed poster can't be un-printed.

Why was my argument blocked?

Everything posted here is checked automatically before anyone else can see it. The check looks for hate, harassment, sexual content, and violence.

It is not perfect, and it sometimes blocks something harmless. If that happened to you, try rewording it — and if you think the block was plainly wrong, email us with the wording and a person will look.

Difficult subjects are allowed here. Money, family, religion, politics, death — all fine. What isn't allowed is aiming at a real, identifiable person. The rules explain the difference, and it's a short read.

How do I get something taken down?

Three ways, all of which work:

• "Report this" — the button at the bottom of any argument. You don't have to say who you are.
• Email justin@cronkcompanies.com. A person reads it and replies.
• If it's your copyright, there's a formal process.

If something identifies a real private person, it comes down on request. If it's something you posted yourself and you've changed your mind, just ask.

Can I fix a typo?

Yes, for 30 seconds after posting. After that it's locked. That's deliberate: people may already have voted, and letting the question change underneath their votes would make the result meaningless.

If you posted something with a bad mistake, ask us to remove it and post it again.

"An argument like this already exists"

Somebody already posted something close enough that a second copy would split the votes between two pages and neither would get a useful result.

You can open the existing one and vote on it, or reword yours to ask something genuinely different.

Can I see how mine is doing?

Yes. Every argument you post gets a private dashboard, linked from the screen you see right after posting, and from the list of your arguments on the home page. It shows votes over time, and which websites sent people to it.

That dashboard is tied to your browser, not to an account. If you clear your browser data or move to a new device, you lose access to it — the argument stays up and keeps collecting votes, you just can't see the dashboard any more. Nothing else is affected.

About the "where it travelled" numbers: they count arrivals we can actually observe, and treat them as a floor rather than a total. Somebody forwarding your link in a private message, or screenshotting it, is invisible to us — which is as it should be.

Finding an argument again

The search box on the live list searches the words in an argument, which is what most people want.

It also does exact lookups. Paste in a receipt code, a transaction ID, a wallet address, or a block number and it jumps straight to the matching argument — handy if somebody sent you a receipt and you want to see what it belongs to.

Is this a real survey?

No, and we won't pretend otherwise.

People who vote here chose to vote. They're whoever happened to open the link. They aren't balanced by age, country, or anything else, and we don't adjust the numbers to make them look like they are.

So a result here tells you what the people who voted thought. It's genuinely interesting, and it settles arguments. It is not evidence of what the public thinks, and it shouldn't be quoted as though it were.

Who runs this?

Cronk Companies LLC, a small company in Minnesota, USA. One person builds and maintains it, and answers the email: justin@cronkcompanies.com.

If something is broken, confusing, unfair, or just badly worded, saying so genuinely does get it changed.

See also: The rules, Terms, Privacy, Copyright, Accessibility.