Dr-Electro
03-02-2004, 03:47 PM
Lately, it seems to me that more people are posting utter crap as debates. Please stop. For your topic to qualify as a debate, it must first be a DEBATABLE SUBJECT!
Kiddos: If you are not sure that your topic is a good debate, please, please, please PM me with your idea and we can discuss it or dress it in fine clothing to make it debatable. If it is just cheese, I will recommend that you start it in Cheesebin. OK??? I did say Please.
"What's your favorite color of toe jam?" is not a debate. A question that can be answered yes or no, such as, "Is Skoo your daddy?" is not a debate.
A thought-provoking subject that can be presented with at least two sides to argue is a debate, even if we are not the greatest debaters in the world. (who cares, right?)
Give me "Bush vs. Kerry for President" or "Paper or Plastic? Which is safer for the environment?" or "How does Marmite stack uip against Vegemite as a survival food?"
Please keep your topics, well, topical! Nail polish, (excluding SazZa's thread which is actually about conformity vs. non-conformity) watermelon seeds, your grandmother's dying cat and/or who likes coke better than pepsi are crappy topics that belong in General or even Cheese, depending on the content of the posts.
If you continue to litter this forum with shite, I will recommend that your fate be sealed to the cheesebin. I am not happy with such decisions and judgement calls. I will bend over backwards to be fair to you all. I am, however, tired of having to take out the trash.
That said, I will accept a large portion of the blame for the current state of the Debates forum. I have been less attentive than I should have been, partly due to illness and partly due to business.
I am back, childs. I am watching and participating. Let's have a good debate here, ok?
Kiddos: If you are not sure that your topic is a good debate, please, please, please PM me with your idea and we can discuss it or dress it in fine clothing to make it debatable. If it is just cheese, I will recommend that you start it in Cheesebin. OK??? I did say Please.
"What's your favorite color of toe jam?" is not a debate. A question that can be answered yes or no, such as, "Is Skoo your daddy?" is not a debate.
A thought-provoking subject that can be presented with at least two sides to argue is a debate, even if we are not the greatest debaters in the world. (who cares, right?)
Give me "Bush vs. Kerry for President" or "Paper or Plastic? Which is safer for the environment?" or "How does Marmite stack uip against Vegemite as a survival food?"
Please keep your topics, well, topical! Nail polish, (excluding SazZa's thread which is actually about conformity vs. non-conformity) watermelon seeds, your grandmother's dying cat and/or who likes coke better than pepsi are crappy topics that belong in General or even Cheese, depending on the content of the posts.
If you continue to litter this forum with shite, I will recommend that your fate be sealed to the cheesebin. I am not happy with such decisions and judgement calls. I will bend over backwards to be fair to you all. I am, however, tired of having to take out the trash.
That said, I will accept a large portion of the blame for the current state of the Debates forum. I have been less attentive than I should have been, partly due to illness and partly due to business.
I am back, childs. I am watching and participating. Let's have a good debate here, ok?