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?

[sadolakced acid]

well, logically it's because your opinions aren't properly backed up most of the time.

saying "this is an idiotic opinion" and quoting someone else does not constitute a good post.

quite frankly, i don't know of a single post you've made that's been a good contribution to the debate. i probably haven't read all the posts in the debate forum, and i usually don't look to see who posted.

so if you would like to quote some of your posts to me, you know, the good ones, then that would be great. because see, that would be backing up your opinion with facts.

otherwise, the only posts i really see are these jewels:

The truth is that most people do not understand abortion at all. This is why we get comments like these:

Once again, its not that we don't want to hear someone's opinion. We wanna hear your opinion but we also want you to tell us why you have the opinion that you have, what convinced you to have that opinion? Why is your opinion better then other's?