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Battle Grounds and DisputationsPlease explain the method you propose. How will it differ from our current MO?
I withdraw my offer of assistance.
Why? I'm waiting to see who else if anyone, is interested.
If you build it... they will come.
Why? I'm waiting to see who else if anyone, is interested.
What are you waiting for, a parade? If you got one person out of a thousand that buys into your vision you nurture it because tomorrow it's 2 and next week it's four.
You need work on your team building skills.
You need to read a book...may I recommend, "How to Make Friends and Influence People".
:roll:
Maybe if people threw out more specific topics they might find someone who wants to debate them like Stop-Question-Frisk; Challenges of Modernity in Islamic Societies. Going in too broadly and you may end up with people not really debating an issue but talking around each other.
Here's the thing:
In order to make this work, I need to show there is a definite interest. I purposefully picked broad topics, because there could be so many pointed debates we could do.
The jist of this needs to be proven to other Mods that this is worth doing. While I am passionate about formal debates, I am not into strong arming a community into participating in something they have no interest in.
In fact, the only reason I placed this in the polls section, is because it would, in theory, get more attention than it would in feedback/suggestions.
Having said that, I will hone a specific topic for debate and make another poll asking for volunteers to participate.
Like others here, I have a full time job and real life commitments; therefore I apologize for not being more active in trying to garner interest.
I am a firm believer in letting a community dictate what interests THEM.
You need to read a book...may I recommend, "How to Make Friends and Influence People".
:roll:
Here's the thing:
In order to make this work, I need to show there is a definite interest. I purposefully picked broad topics, because there could be so many pointed debates we could do.
The jist of this needs to be proven to other Mods that this is worth doing. While I am passionate about formal debates, I am not into strong arming a community into participating in something they have no interest in.
In fact, the only reason I placed this in the polls section, is because it would, in theory, get more attention than it would in feedback/suggestions.
Having said that, I will hone a specific topic for debate and make another poll asking for volunteers to participate.
Like others here, I have a full time job and real life commitments; therefore I apologize for not being more active in trying to garner interest.
I am a firm believer in letting a community dictate what interests THEM.
I would be interested in a reverse debate on gun control, where I take the anti-gun side. I can show you peons how it's don and maybe then you can offer me some entertainment in the rest of the forum. I don't formally debate for free though. I'l require another blue ribbon.
Here's the thing:
In order to make this work, I need to show there is a definite interest. I purposefully picked broad topics, because there could be so many pointed debates we could do.
The jist of this needs to be proven to other Mods that this is worth doing. While I am passionate about formal debates, I am not into strong arming a community into participating in something they have no interest in.
In fact, the only reason I placed this in the polls section, is because it would, in theory, get more attention than it would in feedback/suggestions.
Having said that, I will hone a specific topic for debate and make another poll asking for volunteers to participate.
Like others here, I have a full time job and real life commitments; therefore I apologize for not being more active in trying to garner interest.
I am a firm believer in letting a community dictate what interests THEM.
This is an internet forum bro. Not the halls of Congress or the White House. Get a clue. For all we know you could be a fat 16 year old boy who has never been laid and is looking longingly at TGND's avatar. "I came here to get things done" LOL :lamoI didn't come here to make friends, I got plenty of friends. I came here to get things done.
This is an internet forum bro. Not the halls of Congress or the White House. Get a clue. For all we know you could be a fat 16 year old boy who has never been laid and is looking longingly at TGND's avatar. "I came here to get things done" LOL :lamo
Sorry TGND. Probably derailed your thread with this. I couldn't help it. That post was too much to pass up. I'll leave it alone now.
This is an internet forum bro. Not the halls of Congress or the White House. Get a clue. For all we know you could be a fat 16 year old boy who has never been laid and is looking longingly at TGND's avatar. "I came here to get things done" LOL :lamo
Sorry TGND. Probably derailed your thread with this. I couldn't help it. That post was too much to pass up. I'll leave it alone now.
They've done it here before, and we did it on PCF and WS... with good results. I believe the key is picking team captains and then putting together a cohesive, intelligent and respectful team.
If all the debate people had been psychopaths, the results wouldn't be so mixed. No need to start discriminating against psychopaths. There are just too many other deserving groups already asking for it.I dunno.
4Forums tried this
Mixed results. But that may have been because some of the formal debate people were psychopaths.
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