Ok so I personally have run into a problem. We have a section called ''World Issues'' Where everything is being posted that is discussable/debatable.
I think there might be some problem with this because there clearly is a difference between Debating and Discussing.
Discussing: This is where you give your views and arguments for it and discus it. This is not meant for proving each other wrong.
Debating: This is where you try and counter other people their arguments.
I see a lot of topics getting replies in which people do debate, but there are many people in there and it gets all messed up and confusing. Also there are people who do not want to get into a debate and just post their views. Then there is this issue when there is a debate and two or three people start arguing about one little side-topic within the actual topic (e.g. the Iran thing in the Election thread)
Wouldn't it be more easy if we had a subsection in the den called debates and then have two subsections: Private debates and Public debates. The world issues will just be a discussion forum.
Advantages:
People won't get confused
Side issues can be taken to the private debating forum
People who don't want to debate don't get to debate or get involved
Resolve the ''drama and locking topics'' issue that has been going on for some time (which personally annoys me a lot)
Just a thought, I think it might organize things a bit better.
[quote="FlipMode"]What about a debating society user group with its own part of the forum? o.o[/quote]