{"id":107,"date":"2023-04-06T08:40:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.kialo.dev\/hc\/multi-vs-single-thesis-discussions\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T05:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T05:59:06","password":"","slug":"multi-vs-single-thesis-discussions","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/multi-vs-single-thesis-discussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi- vs Single-Thesis Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are two ways the top level of a Kialo discussion can be structured &ndash; multi- or single-thesis.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A single thesis discussion has one thesis or central question, with two directly oppositional sides. For example:<\/span><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Multi-thesis_PINEAPPLE.png\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Multi-thesis_PINEAPPLE.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-430\" width=\"680\" height=\"470\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A multi thesis discussion has two or more theses, each of which proposes an answer to a central question. For example:<\/span><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/question_PINEAPPLE.png\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/question_PINEAPPLE.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-432\" width=\"672\" height=\"408\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The starting structure of a discussion is set up when you create it. For information on how to change the type of discussion, see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/changing-a-discussion-between-multi-and-single-thesis-structures\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"93\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Changing a Discussion Between Multi- and Single-Thesis Structures<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two ways the top level of a Kialo discussion can be structured &ndash; multi- or single-thesis.A single thesis discussion has one thesis or central question, with two directly oppositional sides. For example:A multi thesis discussion has two or more theses, each of which proposes an answer to a central question. For example:The starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_doc_category":0,"wds_primary_doc_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[28],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-107","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-creating-a-discussion"],"acf":{"zendesk_id":"115003884129","zendesk_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115003884129"},"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":88,"total_views":"404","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"1"},"author_info":{"name":"mk","author_nicename":"mk","author_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/author\/mk\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Creating a Discussion","term_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/sections\/creating-a-discussion\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}