Debating, Discussing and whats the difference?

[Tora]

I agree I think there needs to be a place for debate other than a PM.

[FlipMode]

What about a debating society user group with its own part of the forum? o.o

[FlipMode]

To expand a bit on that actually, by "debating" I mean anything that is an opinionated discussion on an important matter, I know that could be classed as any thread but use your common sense; it would be for thing that are relatable to topics such as politics, religion and race, ethics, culture, science ( since it links to religion a lot) that kind of thing, basically any mature and / or deep subject.

[TheLionPrince]

Even though I may disagree with your political views, Woeler, I agree that debates and discussions are quite different, and need to be separated on this forum.

[Moka]

Before we get too riled up about this, I would like to remind everyone that this is a Lion King forum, not an all-purpose forum. There are forums out there more suited for handling debates over controversial topics such as politics and religion.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/forum.php
http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/

What the World Issues forum exists for is discussing current world events, not debating. It says so in the forum description.

[FlipMode]

Ah okay that makes sense :)
I do think the description could be re written to make that clearer though. And I get what you are saying; I mean if the kind of thought that goes into the debates in the OT section; if all that time and energy was put into the TLK sections they would be back to their former glory. I think amongst all the dramas and stuff we all forgot why we joined in the first place :D

[FlipMode]

'craft is playing a game with fellow members co operatively; debating is openly inviting those same people to argue with you... I know which one of those sounds more appropriate to me.
We have debates in the world issues forum as it is; even though moka already said not to lol

[FlipMode]

Well when you put it that way; it does sound better yeah :)

[Azdgari]

Have people been complaining that they feel forced into debates in the World Issues forum?

[FlipMode]

Have people been complaining that they feel forced into debates in the World Issues forum?

No, they don't complain about being forced into it, but they do complain about it in general yeah.
Half of the time these debates occur and you see a lot of posts like "OMG DRAMAZ ON INTERNETZ!" "Another day on MLK." I think that is what Woeler was talking about. The stuff with Noah and personal problems between members, that is the silly drama that plagues this site... People having differing opinions on subject, is a conversation... Quite the difference.
I mean these people are probably reporting these debate threads as drama, hence why a lot of the time they end up being locked. So I do see where he is coming from, in some aspects at least.