The Internet's leading social networking debate website, CreateDebate, today announced that it has launched in to a public beta.

The answer to standard internet flame-wars and message boards that are an unreadable jumble of arguments is CreateDebate. A structure that lets people easily see what the best arguments are, and which side of a debate is winning is provided by the CreateDebate platform. People can create three kinds of debates and argue about any topic they are passionate about. The CreateDebate community is empowered to vote up well-conceived arguments and vote down flawed logic. The best arguments rise, over time, to the top of the debate, which helps to distill out the central points and most relevant factors.

So that better decisions can be made, CreateDebate, at the most basic level, is a social tool designed to help groups of people sort through issues, viewpoints, and opinions in an organized manner. Encouraging people to create debates about interesting things that they really care about, debates about personal decisions and self-promoting debates are welcome. One, by creating a debate, can harness the collective intelligence of the CreateDebate community, which is a great way to get honest feedback (and criticism).

The social networking features of CreateDebate being robust, automatically buildsing itself over time, each user has a profile. Allies, enemies and hostile relationships are tracked and a news feeds provides personalized updates.  Its always easy to find out what's new, because debate and arguments activity is also automatically tracked. Making it easier to identify the top debaters in a number of categories, a points system keeps tabs on participation. People are allowed by the research feature to pipe RSS content from the web into any debate. Many additional features and improvements are slated to roll out during the public beta period.