The Old Dark Navy's
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Okay folks, it's trial time.
We see a lot of arguments going on and on in a never ending loop until they start derailing threads. I'm all for some lengthy debates but we have to separate them out somehow.
If we see this sort of thing happen, the participants may be invited into the Thunderdome to complete their debate. Any further debate in the original thread will be removed.
No other posters can post in the Thunderdome until the debate is done. The participants can agree to shake hands and leave the Thunderdome together, or their peers can then post who they think won the debate and why. We can run a poll for each debate if you like.
What this will accomplish is to keep threads flowing, and make posters be a little less definitive and a little more accommodating towards the opinions of others, AND importantly, produce receipts for their contentions.
If a poster refuses the invitation to enter the Thunderdome, they are deemed to have lost the debate automatically. We may even keep running tallies as to our best debators. If both refuse, it is considered a forfeit and also show in their tally. You have to enter even if both shake hands and call it off immediately. Those will be considered a draw.
In between debates, posters may put forward debate recommendations and participants in this thread.
This is limited to football discussion only folks. Politics and other social issues have their own place elsewhere on BigFooty.
Let's have fun with this folks and leave the egos at the cage door.
We see a lot of arguments going on and on in a never ending loop until they start derailing threads. I'm all for some lengthy debates but we have to separate them out somehow.
If we see this sort of thing happen, the participants may be invited into the Thunderdome to complete their debate. Any further debate in the original thread will be removed.
No other posters can post in the Thunderdome until the debate is done. The participants can agree to shake hands and leave the Thunderdome together, or their peers can then post who they think won the debate and why. We can run a poll for each debate if you like.
What this will accomplish is to keep threads flowing, and make posters be a little less definitive and a little more accommodating towards the opinions of others, AND importantly, produce receipts for their contentions.
If a poster refuses the invitation to enter the Thunderdome, they are deemed to have lost the debate automatically. We may even keep running tallies as to our best debators. If both refuse, it is considered a forfeit and also show in their tally. You have to enter even if both shake hands and call it off immediately. Those will be considered a draw.
In between debates, posters may put forward debate recommendations and participants in this thread.
This is limited to football discussion only folks. Politics and other social issues have their own place elsewhere on BigFooty.
Let's have fun with this folks and leave the egos at the cage door.
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