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 Post subject: Welcome to Debate Club - The Official Rules
PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 11:58 pm 
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*kyhm steps into the new forum and looks around. The light is dim, the ceiling is low, the floor is concrete. A set of stairs lead down from above. He looks around at the assembled mob.*

Welcome to Debate Club. The first rule of Debate Club is...

*kyhm breaks off and grins broadly. He produces a large remote control from a random pocket and presses a few buttons. The lights come up, and in what were the shadows can be seen two desks, each with several comfortable chairs.*

People love to argue. Especially the regs on these boards. About some serious shit too, sometimes, things like economics, and politics, and religion... Or about which anime has the best-built characters. So here's the place to do it. Now, for the rules:

<ul><li>The first rule of Debate Club is: If a serious debate comes up in a thread in another forum, bring it here.
<li>The second rule of Debate Club is: <i>If a serious debate comes up in a thread in another forum, bring it here</i>. Mods in other forums, you can boot those threads over here with the move icon at the bottom, it looks like this: <img src="templates/subSilver/images/topic_move.gif">
<li>Third rule: Somebody starts flaming... starts swearing... conceeds the debate... the debate is over.
<li>Fourth rule: Any number of debates at a time.
<li>Fifth rule: No macros. No inline images.
<li>Sixth rule: Debates go on as long as they have to.
<li>And the seventh and final rule: If this is your first time at Debate Club *grins* you have to debate.</ul>
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Aww, geez...


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Fantastic idea, Kyhm. Now people who can waste their time arguing about this stuff (like me, kc, etc.) have a place to do our thing without annoying the people who couldn't give a shit (like... well, a lot of regs).

Just one question: what if an originally debate-free thread is hijacked and becomes a debate?


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First topic of debate:

Should we jsut move them all to The Straight Dope Message Board?
These board debates used to be neat. We would be talking about one thing, and then get into a conversation about collectivism or such.

However now they seem cynical and forced. There is a feeling that they are started just to have them, so that we may feel better about ourselves in some way. What's more, certain unnamed obnoxious people tend to flame and ruin the threads. Just one side making assertions against the other, until you just get someone posting a topic and everyone making comments without debating at all.

They do not really have a place here.
They are not fun anymore.
Take em' to the SDMB.


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The idea then is either the main debaters come here and make a thread for it, or the Mod asks them to do so, or failing all that, the Mod kicks the whole thread over here.

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Muad, I don't draw much of a line between having a forum here for it, or people taking it to the SDMB (which I still haven't regged for, lack of time...)

Putting a board here for debates does give mods in other boards somewhere to move threads that turn into a huge off-topic debate...

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Hurry up and register. It is the best message board on the internet.

I think you guys could probably find me on their easily.


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Question,how are you going to enforce the third rule?You couldn't be on all the time and most of the debates could turn nasty.
Second question,what is a macro?


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Oh brother -_-


well i just had to see it with my own eyes, but i'll probabl never step into this forum again... unless it's a debate about the biggest chest size ^_^


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I believe that that would be Ms. Chelsea Charms.

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Dear God... how can that woman walk?


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It's freaky/bizzare/or just plain wierd Maud's got it...

i swear Maud sometimes i think you should be the guy with the tophat in a circus... you know, the ring leader guy who starts the show

*Maud standing in the middle of the circus ring sporting a top hat. all around him are forum members munching on popcorn waiting for the show. Maud pulls out a microphone and starts the show*

Maud: ladies and gentlemen... boys and girls!!! tonight we have a special blah blah


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Oh shit . . .

(And this is all I'mma say on this subject. At least Icy and KC can get it on somewhere else . . .)

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I bet she cries herself to sleep every night.


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That poor woman will never, ever, EVER, be able to run for her life. Be able to run at all for that matter. . .

*shakes head* My back hurts just looking at it.

A debate forum DOES sound great though! Especially considering the jumps between nude angels and theology. . .
This is just what was needed. . .

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Good lord almighty..... someone used watermelons to implant that woman's breasts... you could never do anything with her, you'd drown in oversized breasts....

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Now this is ironic.The thread that was supposed to be about the debate thread is now off topic.


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And you expected something else . . .

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never trust other people to stay on topic. especially so for higher numbers of other people

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