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Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

It has all the potential to turn into a master-debate ...

My guess is that "Enrico Palazzo" is really a young woman (or "sensitive-type" bloke) who was turned on by Anne Hathaway's flustered debate performance scene at the start of Princess Diaries ... Razz

(Maybe they finally let "Bramble" become a mod ... Surprised

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Enrico Palazzo · Mod Team Joined: 11 Mar 2008

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Leeeeet's get ready to RUUMBLE!!!

(I think I just found my new avatar.)

Bramble · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: National treasures need homes

Sounds like a wonderful idea for some other type of forum. Here, the socks would probably argue in circles with themselves before logging into their mod accounts and locking the whole thing.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:42 am Post subject:

IDEA: Have a list of interested participants then have two of the classic Current Events forum posters DRAFT pick from the list of interested participants, thereby consisting of two teams for the debate.

Julius · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

Making up the rules is more fun than playing.

U only have to watch kids 2 know that. Laughing

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

Mods versus rockers? (OK, I'm pabo and/or babo ...)

How about a playoff system modeled after the NCAA basketball tournament? (and we can make bets and have office pools on the side) Cool

We could start a late "March Madness" with a "Sweet 16" (eight brackets) or (more likely) a round of eight contestants (four brackets) or (most likely) start right off with the "Final Four"...

The Bobster · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Enrico Palazzo · Mod Team Joined: 11 Mar 2008

[quote="The Bobster"]

Anyway, I was thinking maybe small 2 or 3 member teams would be cool, so there'd be someone to pick up the slack. And just like a real debate, the positions could be assigned by others, so maybe me and Nowhere Man and Big_Bird would have to argue in favor of the idea that the Iraq invasion was right and good, best thing since sliced bread, and Gopher and Justin Hale and Joo Rhipp would have to argue that Saddam was just sort of morose and misunderstood, it was all a big misunderstanding, and if everybody had just stopped picking on him ...

[I think having teams might be difficult unless you have two of say the same threads with one against one and one against one. Suppose, you have Gopher and Joo on one team and Big Bird and On The Other Hand.
BB would debate say Gopher in one thread and On the Other Hand would debate Joo, and then you could see who combined has the most points.
Then, you have the winning team. Couldn't it get messy if you have
several people in one thread debating? How would one organize that in just one thread unless it's one on one?

And, sorry, I meant Captain Corea, not Captain America. Anyway, aren't they on the same team? Smile

By Friday, let's have at least an attempt, a practice debate with ideas coming together... If necessary, something should get started by Monday and the debate would have to end on a Thursday and the voting would happen on that day. This should be done every two weeks.

In the debate, it shouldn't be assumed the CE moderator will moderate the debate. A forum member might be idealy chosen for that with the CE moderator assisting if necessary, being a facilitator.

agentX · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Location: Jeolla province

IF the debate needs a fact-checker, I'm game.

It would make my work a lot more rewarding and interesting if debaters would refrain from using as sources people like Bill Kristol or organizations like TownHall or FoxNews.
Why? Because they tend to lie. They tend to lie a lot. The Rev. Wright thing was one in a long line of lies.

The debate should be about the topics themselves, and not lead to whether or not the information presented is inaccurate because one debater got it from the Bush Administration.

Funkdafied · Joined: 04 Nov 2007 Location: In Da House