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?

[*CowerPointyObjects*]

Mod preview always seemed terribly useless.

I fully agree with Nate (Nate, right?) that the people who put the effort into bothering to apply should be given the privileges, as they will more than likely be the ones who wouldn't simply drop in to go 'omg gayz r grosssssss!!!!11!' However, I also propose that one of the qualifications be a basic grasp on the English language, because I for one refuse to take someone's opinion seriously when they can neither form structurally sound sentences nor spell everyday words correctly (for god's sake, just download firefox if you're that bad at spelling; yay spell check!).


Edit: oh god, just noticed that I had several typos. Am not a hypocrite, I swear it was just 1:30am and I've barely slept in a week!