Debate Stats:

Debate Score:126
Arguments:63
Total Votes:136
Ended:05/07/08
More Stats

Debate Creator:

bjcefola(38) pic

This debate has ended. You can no longer add arguments or vote in this debate.
Are you trying to figure out how this debate works? Show Quick Tips
 

What features should be added to CreateDebate?

What would you change?

– MyPic geoff(659)
6
points 

A chronological list of everything directly connected with contributions in one's profile page. Whenever I log in, I want to see all responses to my arguments, rebuttals etc. as well as new debate/popularity topics. Currently, I have to click the 'New argument/debate activity!' which seems to demand a lot of brain RAM.

Also, ditch the weird animated (AJAX?) login box. For some reason, I have to re-enter my credentials every visit despite telling Firefox (and ticking the form checkbox) to remember me.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic Loudacris(774) Favored
5
points 

Good call. Take a look at your profile, my man. If there are new arguments that should interest you (either posted to your debate or responding to one of your arguments) so can now see them all in one place:

New Activity Quick Glance

You dig?

Posted 164 days ago
– MyPic Astroglide(19) Favored
2
points 

Hooray!

Posted 164 days ago
– MyPic DebateMan(392) Favored
2
points 

Nice work on the New Activity Quick Glance, this is something this site definitely needed. I really appreciate the fine folks at CD being so responsive to the community's requests.

Posted 164 days ago
– MyPic geoff(659) Favored
1
point  

Excellent, well done. It works as expected.

Posted 164 days ago
– MyPic pvtNobody(327) Favored
3
points 

I'd also like to have a more detailed listing of my debate activity, perhaps not on my main profile page but it'd be nice to be able to see what arguments I've posted on various debates and when their scores have changed.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic derecola(41) Favored
2
points 

Definitely. This should be priority number one.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic HGrey87(188)
4
points 

An option to not oppose or favor an argument. A lot of people would like one. Although one could argue that contributing more arguments and rebuttals to a debate gives one's opinions greater weight for their side.

The ability to withdraw an up- or down-vote without having to do the opposite.

Just ran into someone who downvoted my arguments out of spite, I believe. I dunno what kind of safeguard there could possibly be, but it sucks :( Bye bye, 90% rating.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic pvtNobody(327) Opposed
4
points 

I think that I may have also been a victim of such an attack at some point. It does suck. Then again at least you know that people are reading what you're saying. Usually a low(ish) score seems to mean that you're either a) annoying or b) provocative. Or at least that's how I choose to look at it.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic randomguy(43)
4
points 

Is there a private message feature? I would like to send a message to another user without it showing up in my "Conversations" on my profile.

Posted 160 days ago
– MyPic bjcefola(38)
3
points 

Some kind of region coding (maybe just the tag) to facilitate debating local issues

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic THEDert(188) Opposed
1
point  

Maybe for a different site. Still a good idea, but would break up debate activity within the main site.

Posted 164 days ago
– MyPic jeff(48)
3
points 

Another type of debate, but actually more like a poll. Currently if you want to have more than 2 options, it's impossible, and it leads towards just a comment thread. You don't know what argument won, and what lost - so the solution could be for the debate creator to have 3-5 or whatever options instead of it just turning into a comment thread.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic blammo(166) Favored
2
points 

I like that idea Jeff....multiple choices , istead of yes/no everytime! I think that is a fantastic idea!

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic Loudacris(774) Favored
2
points 

We have a very cool feature coming that directly ties into this idea. It is in the works now. I really think its going to make the site a lot better. Hopefully it will be in production in about 2 weeks or so.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic THEDert(188) Favored
1
point  

Jeff, good thinking man. I think it would be a hit!

Posted 164 days ago
– MyPic jeff(48)
3
points 

-permalink for each argument within a debate

-sort by most votes option

-an easier way to see what activity was on my debate rather than re-reading an entire thread.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic Loudacris(774) Favored
2
points 

Try the Sort By Newest and let me know if that is an easier way to see what activity is new.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic jeff(48) Favored
2
points 

much better, but it looks kinda broken for a 2 sided debate...

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic Loudacris(774) Favored
1
point  

Each argument now has its own permalink. Click on the orange thought bubble (to the left of Favor | Oppose) to use it. Also, when reviewing arguments on a user profile, you can click on the permalink to jump directly to that argument within the debate.

Posted 161 days ago
– MyPic derecola(41)
3
points 

Graying out the vote button after you've clicked it. I'm easily annoyed and that pop-up to tell me I've already voted seems unnecessary. Graying it out would allow people to easily see what arguments in a debate they've voted up/down.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic jeff(48) Favored
1
point  

definitely, it's annoying to not know what i've voted on or not.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic jeff(48)
3
points 

Actually this is a feature removal request. The address book feature should not reveal the email addresses of your allies/enemies that you've made on createdebate.com. This is a privacy issue and should be resolved sooner rather than later.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic THEDert(188) Favored
2
points 

Yea. Wouldn't be good to have your email open to the people you piss off on a daily basis.

Posted 164 days ago
– MyPic Loudacris(774) Favored
1
point  

More like a bug removal request. Thanks for the heads up, that should not have been happening and it does not any longer.

Posted 161 days ago
– MyPic bjcefola(38)
2
points 

Tag labels for debates

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic THEDert(188) Favored
1
point  

Very good suggestion. I think that would be awesome to have, or even a tag cloud.

Posted 164 days ago
– MyPic THEDert(188)
2
points 

RSS feed, so sites can feed the latest debates onto their own site.

Posted 165 days ago
– MyPic borme(514) Favored
1
point  

I'm happy to announce that now you can pipe CreateDebate directly to your favorite RSS feed reader. Check out the "RSS Feeds" section under the About tab.

Posted 164 days ago
– MyPic DebateMan(392) Favored
2
points 

Awesome!

Posted 164 days ago
– MyPic THEDert(188) Favored
2
points 

Works PERFECT!

Posted 164 days ago
– MyPic jwitter(77) Favored
1
point  

Can we get an RSS feed for the debates we participate in, create or for our Allies? As a teacher, this would make grading debates easier.

Posted 159 days ago
permalink Favor |