And actually a tad hypocritical since the flowchart itself has the flavor of sermon. In a one on one conversation - which the board isn't - your real goals don't involve reasoned argument, they are all about building a bond to the other person, convincing them that you and he/she are both very reasonable people, dropping minor concessions to reinforce how reasonable you are while drawing out their own soft spots and pet peeves, etc. Arguing in front of a group is a whole different issue, in face to face group discussion where I and another person are doing the primary debating, I usually not only am not trying to convert them but really don't want to. What I really want is to contrast them to myself in the eyes of our mutual audience in such a way that I, and thus my position, are more thought out, more reasonable, more relaxed... never smug, angry, irritable, etc. unless my audience is there with me, if they are getting irritable, I will too, trying to deliver line the reposts and comments they want to say and so forth. Good reasoning helps but it's really more about reading your audience, that's very very hard on text-only posting, even compared to chat, so that table might be more appropriate to this sort of medium, but I doubt it.