Yes, I have them automatically posted. Also to Facebook. But only the more popular debates.

There is no better debate website. There are some sites that say they are, but they do not practice freedom of speech, they do not allow any and all topics and most importantly, they are sell outs (they sell your data to political parties). Stay here and invite your friends, enemies and everyone else.

So this is an easy one. Facebook sucks...people who use Facebook do so because they want to have a digital social life. I hate Facebook...I only use it because certain people and companies have no other social presence. Ugh...they need to get a life. Oh, and about vaccination, I think people are "advertising" it because they want others to do so as well.

Thanks for noticing. I have been cleaning up the spammers. Over the last six weeks I have deleted 8000+ spam accounts as well as over 4000 debates. I am almost to the point where I am able to clean all the new spam each day. I have also asked my developer to add some additional measure to prevent spamming. I have also been deleting duplicate accounts as I find them.

Dear spchtchr, The membership here can be over zealous at times. I have asked them to stay off of debates that are clearly education based debates. I think the best opportunity for you would be to create you own public community. It is free of charge and while anyone can join, most people don't look at the other communities. Here is a link to setup your own. It takes less than one minute. Then you can post your debates safely there. If any of our members join, you (or I) can ban them from your community.

https://www.createdebate.com/site/newsite

Under education select get started and on the next screen choose the free option.

Then provide your students with the link to your very own community and let them debate!

Let me know if you have any questions via the messaging system.

Best regards,

Andy

I think it depends on the school and current hours, but I do not think school hours should change. If we shortened them children would lose out on education time. If we lengthen them, we short them sports, extra circulars activities and the opportunity to work a job.

We can't control what isn't controllable. We can't stop the problem at the border as it goes much deeper than that. There are too many issues going on in Mexico and Central America. We can't solve those problems, they need to solve the problem. It will take decades to affect change. So we should support efforts to fix it, but we need to be realistic.

There is no way most countries will follow Biden on this. It is too risky and the countries that do follow it will become less attractive than the ones who don't. My opinion is no.

After watching the trial so far, it is clear that he used too much force for too long. I don't think they will be able to Convict on third or second degree murder, but they are setting up and will likely be able to prove the second degree manslaughter charge. From what I read that will give him up to 10 years in prison. I am concerned that he has three charges against him and they all will be considered separately. Therefore, he could be convicted on all three charges!!! I think that is bizarre and is only being done because they want a conviction. All I can say is that this is a tragedy for everyone involved and needs to be quickly dispatched.

If you are against the question you would post your supporting statement and evidence here.

If you support the argument you would post your supporting statement and evidence here.

Well, it is unfortunate that everyone feels that way. I did my best to run the site for 10 years. I gave it my all for the first six or so. Then everyone started complaining about this member or that member. I ran them off, but they came back and id horrific things to the site which I had to spend thousands of dollars to fix/clean/prevent. Running them off caused a vacuum on the side of certain debates. So now what is left? Only those people who have similar mindsets or one or two trolls that I have not been able to get rid of (yet). If you have ideas and want to help I am all ears...they just can cost a ton of cash to implement.

BTW, The site costs about $300 to run each month and I see about $30 in advertising revenue a month.

So should I just shut it down ?

Yes, it will continue. I am working right now on cleaning up the advertising spammers. Then will come the "great cleansing" where some of the people will get their accounts banned...after a very strong warning before deleting them.

Thank you! !

Yes, I am sad as well. We can get some back if I can get help cleaning the trolls and spammers off the site.

Hey there...I have been away too much lately, but I have just reconnected with my developer. We are going to start rolling out some changes. Mostly spam filtering stuff first.

How have you been?

BTW, if you report his accounts, I will delete them. .

Just to clarify, I have started a separate business. This was a hobby. It got out of control and despite spending thousands of hours cleaning up after the many vicious trolls over the last decade. I only pop in now and again to clean what is in the reported log. I lose money on the site every month. Based on what I am reading I should just shut it down. Do you agree?

So, the ads have been gone since July 4th of this month. I was testing to see if people cared if they were there or not. Do you?

I think Biden will win... ...!

No, you must not live in the real world. I protect myself by having ZERO information about anyone...the only information I can see is the IP address of who is logged in when they are logged in. I have to do that because the site has international members. There are laws that prohibit me seeing and knowing anything else without the members permission. Your email addresses are password protected and only you can change them. BTW, most of the members use some type of VPN/Anonymizer. So, I would stop accusing and if you are not happy leave. There is nothing I can do other than delete arguments, debates and ban members for not following the rules. I have enough reports to keep me busy forever. I don't have time to read every post and see everything going on. If you would like, I can delete your member account.

I do not know any information about anyone on the site. I simply cleanup what is reported. Report and you shall be free.

In the spirit of the holiday, the reason they have not responded is that they have all been rendered unconscious due to their turkey cooking exploits. The majority have been affected...some may not survive!

I agree we don't need to have a zillion billionaires. I do think people should be allowed to gain enough wealth so that they can live comfortably without needing to work in their later years.

As I said before, I delete what is reported. I don't have time to read every post on the site. Have YOU ever reported any arguments or debates? If the used the N word or the F word (and you reported them) then they were DELETED. You have to be part of the solution not the problem.

And I have no way to battle the multi account situation if they are using multiple IP addresses (i.e. any of the zillion ways to mask an IP address) because I can't definitively ascertain which accounts are duplicate.

So, will you be part of the solution? If so, let me know and I will work with you to clean up the site.

Thanks,

Andy

You don't understand how this works! I delete what is reported if it is against the rules. And by the way, there were many times "chinaman" had posts deleted. I think you are seeing this through a one-way lens. What's the old saying "If you see something REPORT IT!". If you report it and it has the n word, I will delete it. If you don't report it I won't know about it. So what was likely happening is that there were people reporting you much more often than chinaman.

You blocked me in messaging therefore the only way to have a conversation with you is through a debate or your alt accounts...why don't you unblock me in messaging?

Yes I support making moderators. The biggest problem is whom to trust? Who would you make a moderator?

And how do you plan on doing that ?

But why? What will you do with it ?

Give or Sell? .

So how are you going to help fix it? Suggestions are welcome!

It is the Steve McQueen Effect...if you watch the move the Tao of Steve, it explains exactly why men need to be excellent at something...it is the only way they become desirable in a woman's eyes.

Thank you! .

Whose profile? On this site? Really?...........................................................

No, I have not asked for volunteers, but am happy to receive help.. thank you!

Best regards, Andy

P.S. I will move this conversation to the messaging system

If Google Adsense saw you telling people to click ads you would have your account cancelled.

Well, I never told them to click them I said if they want to see improvements I would need people to click on ads or donate via crowdsourcing

The white space is nothing to do with the ads. The div with a class of shareaholic-canvas has property clear: both. Remove that at replace it with a margin-top. The whole layout is a mess but that will fix that at least.

The white space has everything to do with ads because is wasn't there until I changed to let adsense put ads wherever they think they will best drive conversions

As for the SSL certificate... it's completely free. Just takes a little effort and not having one is hugely damaging to SEO.

Yes, it is free...and I haven't had the time.

Honestly, what have you spent all that money on? Why didn't you just skill up and do it yourself?

Half went to purchase the site and I spend $400 a month for AWS, Support, etc. Having owned the site for 10 years, you can do the math. As far as time, I have a full time job, so does my wife. I have three kids, two of which are special needs and that takes up a significant amount of time. I like having a little bit of a life so I pay a contractor to do the work when he is available.

Atrag, the reason for the white space is that i tried to use a different version of adsense to see if my conversions would pick up. Unfortunately, they remain low. A good month 8-10 years ago was $300 (which almost covered costs). Now a good month is $30. why would I invest any more money into the site when over the course of the 10 years I have spent just shy of $100,000 on it. I could certainly turn parts of it into a pay model, but that wouldn't run off the people making it ugly. If people want change (mobile, fixes for the white space, they are either going to have to spend some time clicking links or pony up some crowdfunding).

I agree with HighFalutin...time is relative to your position. If you are moving at the same speed as the objects you are with (people on the earth), your perspective of time doesn’t change. But, take the concept of light from a sun/star traveling across the universe. If say for example that light was traveling to the earth, but the earth was moving away from the light then, time might appear to be different. The difference is either faster or slower depending on your perspective.

No because too many people attack too many other people .

Free market is for me. In socialism/communism, a few elite live better off the hard work of others (wait that sounds like free market)...with the exception that in free market everyone has a "chance" to break out of the socio-economic class they were born into.

And how do you propose to make it a wild success overnight?

Excellent, Will you please remit $400 / month to my PO box to keep the site running...

Thank you!

Andy

Yes, I banned him...and no I can't ever win...Who is right anyway? Me? You? Bronto? Nobody?

It is clear that he was executed...no doubt he had too much on too many and could have taken down much of the world's elite in the process.

This is a very bad thing. If you back people into a corner with no choice, they will find a way...and more will die because of it. We just took a huge step backwards as a society today!

Actually, I don't like either... .