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We have because... What dumb debates?
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Why have we had so many pointless and dumb debates lately?

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Influx of new users. I've seen it happen a couple of times. If Andy keeps pushing the 50K users, we'll just have to get used to it.

Hey, you've gotta take the bad with the good, right?

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I want a million, but I figured 50,000 was a better number to shoot for by the end of summer!

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I know... But I want more INTELLIGENT users, to make the GOOD debates more interesting.

I mean, I'm all for being stupid and goofing around every once in awhile (okay maybe a little bit more than that ;)) but EVERY single debate a person makes that's just an opinion that you can't really argue is too much...

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I guess all the intelligent debaters are debating in real life.

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I think the real way to get more intelligent debaters is to ask current users to reach out to others (refer a friend program)...not that I have anything tangible to offer them...but I think a membership drive would be a good thing.

Also, I was thinking about reaching out to some institutions like for instance the Vatican and ask them to participate....might be a real draw for new users?

What do you think?

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Because CD is so addicting we want to post something... or that's just me... :D

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I feel like moderators could move a lot of these debates to a "not important" section, that way looking through the "new debates" section wouldn't be such a rage-fest.

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Hey everyone,

Yes, new debaters are often the source of these crazy debates. I have been thinking about a way to categorize the more frivolous debates and put them in a different section. Only problem is, if we do that, those debates will likely get very little activity (I know this is what you all want), but then new people who come to the site will get very discouraged and want to leave. I don't want that.

BTW, I am really the only moderator (for good or bad) right now. I mainly spend my time cleaning up the spam that has been on lately as well as the repeat argument spammers and gratuitous profanity spammers.

I will listen to all suggestions though.

Andy

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I think with more members you'll need more help. AKA more moderators.

As for the debates that we're talking about, maybe instead of putting away the frivolous debates, put away the more serious ones. That way the only people who will be active in them is someone who bothered to look beyond the homepage, meaning they'll be more serious about it.

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yes, interesting idea. I do beleive I will need to reach out to the community to be moderators as well. But, they would have to be very established users who are somewhat stable emotionally :).

Andy

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I don't know why really, I haven't found any debates that I am interested on so I just check the new debates and some of them I don't even want to click or add an agrument.

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there are probably a bunch of kids trying to get more points than their friends.

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Because people dont really know what to debate about anymore , or they just wanna get on the leaderboard ! Like me ! ^__^

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Lol, but the leaderboard isn't hard to get on. Just add arguments to debates already made.

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I knowww haha . But if you think about it , me and my friend are trying to beat eacho other ....so were blowing up random debates lol . And making ones

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There should be a feature to report pointless debates.

And the 50 character requirement should be removed. It is pointless also.

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I have intelligent debates all the time thing is I always send the ones disagreeing running with what Debate dignity I leave them with, after I demolish them with basic logic and research.

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Bahahaha no you don't. But when you get serious, (which is rare) you have some pretty good arguments. .

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hhahahahahahahah hey....I get serious lol well only when I feel the need to win yet another argument. Or simply when basic logic needs to thrash someones un-thought out statements.

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Also I gues because no one knows what to argue about anymore . Like ....we argued a lot about normal topics ...now I think people are just ....weird

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Because I've been absent from this site for so long, clearly :P

Seriously though, in my time away (I apologize for that, by the way, I was fired and was looking for a new job to pay my university tuition, so I've been immensely busy) I have been telling a number of my friends to join up. Most of them are quite similar to me in the way we argue, but our opinions differ on a great deal of things. Hopefully they'll join up and compensate for the amount of stupidity assaulting the site lately.

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We have because there is nothing new to debate. All the ideas have been taken.

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There are not dumb debates, just dumb people. Probably iamdavidh just has multiple accounts.

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May I ask what makes a debate dumb?

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In my opinion, just being repetitive and asking things that are ONLY opinion. Things that are similar to "Which color is better: Blue or Green?"

Or the sonic debates.

Or just things that don't require an argument.

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Or the sonic debates.

Don't even get me started on the Sonic debates... those things had me genuinely raging for a week :P

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