Moe
9th Oct 06, 8:26 AM
This is the first attempt at having an organized debate in The Study. There will be two teams, which will debate a pre-selected topic. Everyone gets a chance to suggest a topic (http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?p=1808144), we will then vote and decide which one we'll be discussing. If you are interested, sign up in this thread.
Signups and topic suggestions will remain open for one week, until Monday, Oct. 16th, ~1800 GMT.
The Rules:
1. The debate thread will run until (to be announced), at which point it will be locked.
2. If you wish to participate in the debate, sign up in this thread.
3. If you wish to suggest a topic for the debate, post in this thread (http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?p=1808144).
4. You can only participate in this debate if you have signed up beforehand.
5. Be advised that people will be assigned to a team randomly. The team's stance on the issue at hand may not coincide with "your" position. If the topic is conservatives vs liberals, you may end up in the conservative camp even if you consider yourself a liberal and vice versa.
6. Team members are encouraged to coordinate with other members of their team using PMs, IRC or other means of communication.
7. Posters will be held to a high standard. This includes proper punctuation and spelling, properly thought-out posts, and materials to back up your claims. This also means no trolling, no personal attacks and no sarcastic one-liners. Anyone who violates these rules may be removed from the debate at any point. In short, if you fuck up you hurt your team.
8. This is a test run, if people are interested in furthering their debate skills by means of this exercise we will do it more often. (We may also do an actual debate contest, at some point, depending on how this goes).
9. Courtesy must be shown to all other members at all times.
Signups and topic suggestions will remain open for one week, until Monday, Oct. 16th, ~1800 GMT.
The Rules:
1. The debate thread will run until (to be announced), at which point it will be locked.
2. If you wish to participate in the debate, sign up in this thread.
3. If you wish to suggest a topic for the debate, post in this thread (http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?p=1808144).
4. You can only participate in this debate if you have signed up beforehand.
5. Be advised that people will be assigned to a team randomly. The team's stance on the issue at hand may not coincide with "your" position. If the topic is conservatives vs liberals, you may end up in the conservative camp even if you consider yourself a liberal and vice versa.
6. Team members are encouraged to coordinate with other members of their team using PMs, IRC or other means of communication.
7. Posters will be held to a high standard. This includes proper punctuation and spelling, properly thought-out posts, and materials to back up your claims. This also means no trolling, no personal attacks and no sarcastic one-liners. Anyone who violates these rules may be removed from the debate at any point. In short, if you fuck up you hurt your team.
8. This is a test run, if people are interested in furthering their debate skills by means of this exercise we will do it more often. (We may also do an actual debate contest, at some point, depending on how this goes).
9. Courtesy must be shown to all other members at all times.