>The recent debates here on the thread have me thinking. Why not create a debate forum here?
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>Someone could post a topic, say 'Abortion - right or wrong', and then 2 or more people could agree to debate the issue.
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>Each debater would agree on a moderator, who would be neutral and only serve to set up parameters, such as "You can only discuss abortion" or "Your entry must be no more than 400 words" and would also decide on a timeframe.
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>The debaters would then research the topic from their selected viewpoint and submit their entry to the moderator who would review it and then post here in the UT.
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>One immediate benefit of this is it would be easy to read the entries as they would be typed in a document as opposed to following threads.
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>Anyone interested in this idea?
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Interesting idea, but sounds way too formal for such as we. I think most of the people around here enjoy the current hodge-podge form of debate with folks jumping in from behind the furniture the way they do.