Making the Debate Forum Exclusive, What do you think? Options

[NoSex]

As I have spent a significant amount of time participating within these debate forums, I have come to a conviction that these boards would benifit greatly if this page were to become exclusive. Exclusive in the sense that direct permission would have to be given to allow one to participate, as in post, in these forums. Once permission has been granted that individual would have the right to normal posting within this forum.

I suggest this because I believe the quality of these debate forums is suffering and that such an action would greatly increase said quality. Memebers far too oftenly post arguments to never return to the debate threads. Many members do not respect the rules of debate, or make a mockery of such. Some members do not seem capable to be included in a reasonable and intellectual debate. A majority of the arguments posted are repeated arguments which have been served pages worth of rebuttles, yet continue to be posted. This all disrupts the point, and the enjoyement driven from these threads. Because of these reasons, and more, I wish that we could create a more close-knit, intellectual, and interested party for the debate section of Createblog.

(I wanted to have the debate in here, as it was a debate, and I don't think I have any kind of serious influence on policy making here. I just want to see what everyone else thinks. After some deliberation here, maybe some of us could bring this idea, or another, to the attention of those who do make policy here.)

Discuss?

[AngryBaby]

i didnt mean "REMOVED" from the community, i know, the debate thread. what i was hinting at was, that every member here is a part of a community. rejecting and accepting will give kids the impression, "what the hell? how is he/she any better than me?"


and every debate, when it begins, starts with an expression of opinion, THEN someone either agrees with it or debates it. in my personal opinion, the person who made "white history month" was pretty naive and ignorant to not understand why african americans were givin a month. but, turns out this topic brought up alot of views and debates and even fights. despite the original topic makers naiveity.

debating DOES root from people opinions. i mean what do you think when someone says "i disagree with homosexuality because of___" is? its still basically an opinion

and sure this would bring people together, the people who take the time to join that is. and if those folks become close nit, thats just a clique isnt it? and "cb's getting too cliquey"

and if not many members would be rejected then whats the point?

[NoSex]

rejecting and accepting will give kids the impression, "what the hell? how is he/she any better than me?"

I really don't think that it will be as large as an issue as you suspect. I would imagine that most of the people who honestly want to be able to post in the debate thread will be allowed to, most of the other members may not even bother applying.

and every debate, when it begins, starts with an expression of opinion, THEN someone either agrees with it or debates it.

The problem is that a large majority of the debate threads have become members simply expressing their opinions. Not intelligently, not constructively, and not in an objective manner. People are not adhering to the basic ideas of debate in that not many people are actually justifying their beliefs and or creating rebuttles to beliefs that they disagree with. Otherwise, we'll end up resorting to a long stream of ad nasueam arguments, and this greatly hinders the quality of the Debate Subforum.

and sure this would bring people together, the people who take the time to join that is. and if those folks become close nit, thats just a clique isnt it? and "cb's getting too cliquey"

Whether this is a legitimate problem or not is hard to tell. If the debate group, if one existed, began to harass non-debate group members, then maybe we can talk about it. In which case, I'm sure we could deal with it. Before then, it's just a slippery slope.

and if not many members would be rejected then whats the point?

I thought I explained that?
Anyways, those who take the time to register are probably good intentioned.
Those who are ill-intentioned or do not care to respect the ideals of debate would probably not care to bother, thus weeding that problem out. If they did apply, and were allowed in, only to start trouble, they could easily be denied further access yet still have the ability to continue posting elsewhere on Createblog.
Also, this would greatly reduce the level of "drive-by posting" here, as well as eliminate those posters who never have an intent to return and follow up on their arguments or answer other debators' questions.