Should creators of debates be allowed to "approve" of comments before they are sent?
Basically, to have a function that puts all comments on a debate as "pending" before the creator approves of them, so that they won't appear unless the creator wants them to.
Yes
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No
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Do you not see the drawbacks of having this in place? 1) The debate creator could be gone for a few days, thus severely delaying the appearance of arguments. 2) Debate creators could also abuse this privilege by denying comments they disagree with. 3) The credibility of an argument should never be arbitrary. Side: No
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As things are now, I would say No. This functionality COULD be added, but I believe we need something similar to metamoderation on slashdot in place first. Basically, we'd need a group of individuals in charge of metamoderation who would be presented a queue of debate bans and rejected posts for review. We'd need guidelines as to what constitutes appropriate circumstances to ban someone or reject a post, and if the metamoderators judge that, according to those guidelines, the ban or rejection was inappropriate and could both overturn it and assign some kind of penalty to the debate creator/moderator; perhaps if you have a ban or a rejection reverted, you are unable to ban or reject comments for 24 hours? Maybe even harsher than that. That way, it could effectively be limited to trolls rather than people the debate creator just dislikes or disagrees with. Side: No
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