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Please sign up here to participate in the fifth round of the ultrarated tournament. Anyone can join even if you haven't done previous rounds of the tournament. Just a warning up front: you will have to vote on up to three debates to earn badges before you can get matched up and do an ultrarated deba

If anyone would like to offer feedback to the current draft of the CoC, it may be found at:https://debate.miraheze.org/wiki/Code_of_ConductWe're quite open to changes, or even complete overhauls if anyone has a better idea for how it should be structured (if anyone opts for that, I would advise crea

I’m back yall better watch out

Several people have been asking about making a dark mode. The wait is finally over. I have made a native dark mode theme. Please let me know your thoughts. If something in dark mode seems broken or hard to read please let me know so I can fix it.

Happy Birthday DebateCraft!On this day (July 11th), exactly one year ago, DebateCraft went live!It has been a fun, exciting, and interesting year, and I'd like to take this opportunity to reflect on everything we have been able to accomplish, and thank everyone for their contributions.I'd like to th

First postDebateCraft currently relies upon human voters to decide the outcome of debates. Human judgement is valuable, but it is not automatically impartial or reliable.People can be influenced by personal beliefs, political opinions, religious views, friendships, writing style, popularity, or simp

Debate Craft need to avoid taking the same root as DebateArt and Debate.org.DebateCraft need to cement their place as the World's debate place.Creating a Wikipedia Page is not beyond the scope.This is potentially a successful global platform.Wikipedia may initially reject. But then we can go to the

So I sign in every morning, stay a few minutes and leave disillusioned.

🏆 The Debate Championship BeltWinning a debate is a significant achievement—but it does not mean the argument has been settled forever.If you defeat the current champion in one of our designated Championship Debates, you become the new holder of the Debate Championship Belt for that topic.We'll cre

Would you allow particular participant specification via request to a site administrator for a forum thread?

Where Every Opinion Matters.We are a community that is dedicated to the art of debate. We are a true free speech platform where every opinion matters and everyone has a voice.Is this really true? Is it "free speech" like the permissible "free speech" of the law of land that says you will be banned o

I think the like button is kinda… bad. Like when I look at my posts and someone liked it, it gives me a buzz, which I think is fucking stupid lol. I think this feature should either be removed or there should at least be an option to make the likes and the button invisible.

Who still battle raps/ is down to around here?

Hello all,the new minimum vote setting is a great and much needed feature, but it's opened up a lot of old debates and I'm trying to shave down the backlog a bit, (ignoring Mal's dozens of slop debates that somehow are now the majority of debates on this website?!)Post any debate in this thread and

Greetings, As you can see we've been very busy with making visual improvements to the site. We would like your feedback on what we have done so far. What is working and what do you think should be improved?

Hello friends,I'm excited to announce that we are going to be releasing a new feature soon that I am copying from the days of debate.org. Back on DDO there was a thing called the big issues. This was a brief survey of hot button issues where you selected if you were pro, unsure, or con. This helped

I will be voting on ALL of the debates in this tournament. That's a promise. Now in the past, the lack of voters may have been a problem. Or cramming in a vote before the judging timeline expired may have presented a problem, and I'm assuming that all would-be or potential voters were overwhelmed an

It's been something I've had stewing in my head for a while since I came onto this site. I haven't been writing as much as I would like to be, and need some practice to get back in form. And writing site 'fanfiction' was something that was relatively popular back on DDO. So I guess my question is wo

Please sign up here to participate in the fourth round of the ultrarated tournament. Anyone can join even if you haven't done previous rounds of the tournament. Just a warning up front: you will have to vote on up to three debates to earn badges before you can get matched up and do an ultrarated deb

Greetings friends,After a lot of work, I am pleased to announce that we finally created a proper reporting feature for moderation issues. Before this change a user needed to message a moderator directly when they saw a debate, vote, or comment that they felt needed to be actioned on. Now, you can re

Here what i do: Better formats like you said. Site is very low effort.Hire a professional coder to make the site more appealing to the viewer.Create clear and understandable rules regarding in how and the way you debate.Get rid of voting all together or vote without a opinion section (or allow all o

Alright, so all the adds which were put in place, all the money spent, didnt do much.tho I invited a few people to discord server, and they came.Isnt it a more simple way to grow site to simply... invite people directly instead of by ads?

I'm working on major changes to the site and adding new functionality. I am thinking of doing a complete overhaul on the site's design. What does everyone think of this concept?

Please sign up here to participate in the third round of the ultrarated tournament. Anyone can join even if you haven't done previous rounds of the tournament. Just a warning up front: you will have to vote on up to three debates to earn badges before you can get matched up and do an ultrarated deba

Example: the debate Islam is Useless in Every sense [https://www.debatecraft.com/debates/d/71/islam-is-useless-in-every-sense], neither opponent enter argument. Pro [the instigator] forfeited each round, a full forfeiture, and thus automatic loss, but Con never wrote an argument in any round, but me

Honestly curious, because both have a similar number of debates going on now

Discord is boomin' but DC itself is relatively slow save for a few active users. I think part of it is just the appeal of fast chatting. A chatbox on DC could attract some more activity that could spill over into threads and broaden the active user pool.Obviously Savant is a busy dude and this would

This post does not apply to those who don't debate. Those who stick purely to the forums can have their bread and butter. It's time for a field day in the world of legitimate complaints. Elo is currency, both on DART and DebateCraft. It is the incentive for participation. DART had the ultimate elo r

Right now, on debate craft, we have 2 systems for elo: Rated and ultraratedRated currently doesnt reward voting at all. It also doesnt reward quality effort. Someone who loses a debate will lose elo even if he put in a lot of effort in debate, he gets punished. And someone who placed a lot of effort