Part of the mediator's job is to document conclusions reached in the debate.

Sometimes, it's important to get a very specific point clear. "Do you mean to say this?" "Do we both agree on this point?" "What do you mean when you use the term ____?". Especially if there are many of these at once, it is difficult to do this "manually" in the middle of a discussion, without the discussion becoming unmanageable.

Do deal with this, here are a few features that can be generally described as conclusions. The debaters go through a more tightly controlled process to determine whether they agree with a very specific point, come up with a set of definitions for a term that they both agree on, etc.

This should remove a roadblock found in standard debate. Without such a formal process, debaters may forget an agreement they made or a definition they agreed on, and end up wasting time debating in circles. Here, we stop old issues from resurfacing.