Sidewalker wrote:
Kohai wrote:
Yes it does.
Damn, I have some serious cutting to do.
I told my opponent I can't imagine needing 10,000 characters, bujt my first pass put me way over.
I suppose taking a JPG of each paragraph and posting the pictures doesn't work.
Crap, I guess I shouldn't have done it high.
Yeah. We set the limit to 10,000 following a few ridiculously large payloads.
Yes it does.
SatanLucy wrote:
As I said on discord, I am not sure the AI rule is good. I mean, being limited to use AI 3 times per week only?
That's not enough. Sometimes I need to use AI 3 times a day. I am sure there are other users who also use a lot of AI. I don't know, the number seems a bit too strict.
But if thats the median vote, fine.
Yeah, I dislike how the question was worded on the survey. I have a feeling that this is the one line that will be revised in the future.
Greetings,
The moderation team has recently re-written the COC. The new COC is found here: https://www.debatecraft.com/code-of-conduct
Please use this thread for feedback, questions, comments, criticisms, and discussions.
Round 1 pairings
Savant vs. whiteflame
fauxlaw vs. Kohai
LancelotDuLac vs. SkepticalOne
transgENDER_DRAGON vs. Sovereign
Greetings,
We have been busy behind the scenes and we wanted to inform the community of a few upcoming releases.
1) Rewritten COC
In light of the RemyBrown trial and the recent survey results, the team has completely re written the COC. We are still finalizing the language but we hope this new COC will be easier to understand, easier to enforce, and more in line with what the community wants.
2) Forum signatures
This has been requested quite a bit. Soon we will have new ways to customize your experience by brining signatures to the site, similar to what DDO had.
3) Opinions section
There will be a new way to debate and engage with opinions. This feature is a bring back from the days of DDO.
We hope to be rolling the new features by the end of the week.
Hello,
Welcome to debatecraft. Having an area of expertise in debates actually isn’t a bad idea. Unfortunately sometimes it is hard to predict who will accept a debate.
One thing I recommend doing is setting the minimum elo to accept the debate high and ask people to contact you or post in the comments if they want to accept. This way you can better vet opponents.
Greetings,
The debatecraft team is seeking new moderators to help shape our community. We are looking to bring on one or two new moderators to the team. You will have a say in moderator decisions and will be a voting member.
Qualifications:
Preferred qualifications:
Duties:
To apply, please DM me directly and answer the following questions:
To apply, please DM me a message.
Greetings,
In order to get more quality rated debates we have decided to launch a rated debate tournament that will run concurrently with the ultra rated tournament. If more people show interest in this tournament we can put the ultra debate tournament on hold.
Format
3 days to argue
10,000 characters max
1 week voting period or when 3 voters have voted.
The main difference is you can select whatever topic you want and don’t need to complete badges to participate
1. Kohai
2. Savant
3. SkepticalOne
4. Fauxlaw
5. Soverign
6. LancelotDuLac
7. transgENDER_DRAGON
8.
9.
etc
Agreed with this. The ultra rated debate tournament is doing good things to get more quality debates. Perhaps we should also run a rated debate tournament where you can pick your own topic?
Why stop there? Call the Atlantic Ocean the east American ocean and the Pacific Ocean the West American Ocean!
fauxlaw wrote:
In trying to reply to my friend, Sidewalker using the reply option in Forum posts [lower-right option] a post does not reply to him. I'm having to write his username manually within the message field as if it's a general comment. He assures me he has not blocked me.
Looks like everything is working for me
thank you. Testing a few things.
Just ran this issue through codex. A few things it noted:
1) The site automatically logs you out once every seven days.
2) There are some other things that can cause the session to log out. I'm gonna get to work squashing this bug. This will be fixed with the next major role out. I'm doing a full overhaul of the big issues feature and iwll fix this bug in that release
I will research this bug. Thank you for reporting. I'll see if I can find a root cause.
8/12/2026
Moderator: Kohai
XSET..SHANE / XSET.SHANE has been banned from voting due to a series of insufficient RFDs as well as multi accounting.
Edit: XSET..SHANE account will be closed per their request.
Savant wrote:
Depends how broadly we're looking at "written debate." People still argue on social media all the time. For the debate.org brand of more structured written debate, DebateCraft is the only game in town to my knowledge, so the question is really "Is DebateCraft less active than debate.org was?" Which I think it very much is, but it's also a new site. Additionally, I think the quality of debate has gone up. People who were on debate.org are probably having the same debates on Reddit, but I think the number of high-quality debates has gone up with UltraRated tournaments. Back on ddo and DART, high-quality debates were a pretty rare event, but here there are usually a few going on at any given time.
I do agree with this. Debate quality has improved big time - especially with the ultrarated tournament
fauxlaw wrote:
Sorry, I backed out of debate a few months ago [I intend it to be temporary], and the whole visual of debate has changed, and it is frankly more difficult to tell by glance of the debate's cover page what the status is.
Thank you for this feedback. I will try and come up with a fix for this. Is there anything else that is more difficult?
8/5/2026
Moderator: Kohai
Debby has been given a 1 week forum ban for necro posting and spam.
CSDebate27 wrote:
I'm CSDebate27, I made the silly mistake to start a debate on DebateArt like 2 days before it shut down. But I hope to find fruitful and useful debates here!
Welcome to DebateCraft. I hope you stick around
Misterio wrote:
Thanks. The other mode was too bright, it was bothering.
Good to see you again. I'm glad you like the dark mode
Skipper wrote:
Hello, I love Dark Mode. Thank you for adding this feature
Glad to hear. You’re welcome
7/25/2026
Moderator: Kohai
Debby has been banned from the forum section for repeatedly spamming fully AI generated forum contents. Further moderation sanctions are pending discussion. We will take into account the latest COC poll when making our final decision: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIHQR640bwjebKIuujdVtSM3stxxkSZ2QhR7s0VEy5aD7tKw/viewform
As a reminder, AI generated content is allowed in certain contexts. However, repeatedly spamming forum topics and posts with fully gnerated AI content may constitute spam and may incur moderator sanctions.
7/23/2026
Moderator: Kohai
TrUjke has been banned from voting due to a series of insufficient RFDs.
RIP DebateCraft
I have no problem with Debby as long as she keeps her spam and AI generated shit to a minimum.
SergeantLynch wrote:
And so.
When is the awards ceremony?
Sorry I've been slacking on this. I'll reopen this up soon
AIOnlineAudits wrote:
I think though, to ask "why did pro win the debate", would be the human being biased.
AI would be assuming that you have already declared pro the winner, and now you are wanting AI to come up with an answer for why, which it will.
However to get AI to be unbiased, you would instead ask "Who won the debate".
There's still some bias here. AI will remember past conversations with you and will give you the side that it thinks you want to hear won the debate.
Yep debateart.com's domain expired. If it goes up for sale I'll grab it and point it to debatecraft
Yep debateart.com's domain expired. If it goes up for sale I'll grab it and point it to debatecraft
