>>>>>>>>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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>>>>>>>What a dumb idea.
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>>>>>>>http://lifeincircles.blog.com/1966424/
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>>>>>>><bg>
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>>>>>>Was that an argument and a relevant hyperlink? No and no. Come'on Jay, you can do better than this.
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>>>>>I think the only thing you can accuse Jay of, is not using emoticons to let you know when he's joking. And even that is tenuous at best. (Well, that and, of course, not agreeing with me all the time).
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>>>>What as <bg>? Doesn't that count.
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>>>Whoa! Got me. I didn't notice it sitting there all alone on its own line.
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>>Oh, that? Doesn't it mean Blowme Goober? Did I use it wrong? I told you, I'm really not an emoticon kind of guy.
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>Your emoticon would be /-! anyway!

LOL! Nice one...

Now THAT was funny!