Kohai

It is hard to believe that this site has launched almost a year ago. When we started this site we had no idea where this would take us or if this would even be a success. Less than a year later we are a small but thriving community. Since our 1 year anniversary is upon us it is time for our first annual hall of fame / awards.

The Hall of Fame (HOF) is a lond-standing tradition that dates back to the days of debate.org. The HOF honors the very best of the site. This year we decided to do the HOF around our 1-year annivesary.

This year we have the following categories:

1. Best debate
2. Best forum topic
3. Best overall user
4. Best new user (defined as a member who has never been a member of debate.org or debateart)
5. Best mafia game
6. Best moment

Any user will be able to propose up to three nominees per category. Nominators may choose to nominate less than the maximum number if they choose. You may not nominate yourself or your own content. The nominating process will close at 11:30 PM, EST, on June 15, 2026.

When you propose a nomination, you are required to offer a brief justification for, explanation of, or reason for you nomination. Any such justification, explanation, or reason must be confined to the same post in which you made the nomination. Please also bold your nominations to make them more visible.

There are no formal criteria for determining who/what can be nominated except that the user, thread, or debate be on DebateCraft. However, if the moderator team conclude that a nomination is wholly and blatantly incongruous with the purpose of the HOF (that purpose being to highlight good, notable, and/or consequential inductees), then we reserve the right to withhold forwarding that nomination to the second stage of the process.

There are no prerequisites or eligibility requirements for users to participate in the Hall of Fame nominating process, except that they have an account on DebateCraft and are not voting/nominating from more than one account. Importantly, coordinating votes or launching campaigns for induction are prohibited. Violating these rules will be a moderatable offense. Other violations of the COC (e.g. personal attacks) committed in this thread will be treated severely

With that let the nomination process begin!

Yay!

Welcome to the site!

Great feedback. I’ll add that to my roadmap for when I get to the forum section.

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 report debates, votes, etc. directly by clicking on the three dots in the corner of the post or vote and hit report.

This will notify moderators that a report has been submitted.

This is a fair point. It's a constant battle between wanting to have high quality debates and also high quality votes. Not everyone has the time and energy to spend writing a long RFD.

One thing I could consider doing is keeing the voting period open until a minimum number of people voted

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Here are some additional design ideas

COC and voting should be here

https://debate.miraheze.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct

thoughts on this so far

This is great feedback.

Fantastic feedback. Love the idea

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?

SatanLucy wrote in #1:

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 opinions as long as it's not hateful or low effort)

Create Mods who aren't part of any affliction with users and don't partake in debates. They're just an observer. This creates an unbias judgement.

Create different types of mods. Form mods. Debate mods. Chat mods.

It's not that. It's more about "you have to sound smart"

And create a 10 essay

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My vote got deleted twice because I didn't use AI generated filler words. I explained my reasoning in the vote where I believe is wrong or right. Voting is about what side you're on and what you believe. Not about creating essays to dismantle the agruements

I was literally saying same thing as one guy but since I didn't "sound smart" it got deleted

Whats the purpose of voting if you're going to restrict opinions

this user messaged me, and eventually posted messages you see above.

User quit the site and server after, but I feel an obligation to copy paste her opinion as feedback for site, because thats what they were. I didnt copy more private messages, so I am not violating privacy.

there is no much point in inviting users if we cant make them stay. And I agree voting system sucks because we are not even getting enough votes from regular users. And new users have great difficulty with voting.

If we make site more difficult to use, less users will stay on site. Its as simple as that.

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Leaning wrote in #9:

I'm not studied in what makes various websites or communities stick.

I don't know why DDO took off,

Maybe it was just lucky, arrived at the right moment of social media,

Maybe it was advertised right or at lucky time,

Maybe it was the Opinions and Polls,

(Shrug) I don't know.

DebateArt, arguably has less restrictions currently than DebateCraft does.

But DebateArt also has population problem.

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Many of the people invited from Discord, already 'have Discord, even 'if we changed, I'm doubtful they'd stick around 'too long.

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Theoretical. . . What does a debate site offer?

A means of settling dispute with randoms or known people,

Disagree with some fellow in the YouTube comments, how do you two decide who was right?

A DUEL I SAY!

Of reason, rhetoric, and source.

I suppose one could also disagree in Discord, and this site again is the option.

Sure you might judge success on YouTube or Discord by thumbs up of other random or known people,

. . But that's not quality, that's not a voter held accountable or giving 'real feedback.

Ah so much better

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Inviting people requires friends. Unfortuantely I seem to lack those these days

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Sounds fun

Date: 3/22/2026

Moderator: Kohai

Debby has been banned for 2 months for repeated spam. In addition on their return they will remain permanently banned from copying and pasting.

Trump has gone 0 days without being a national embarrassment

Date: 1/7/2026

Moderator: Kohai

Debby has been banned for 10 days for repeated spam.

Trump should do Iran next

Happy birthday!

Which, in a way, makes it even worse.

CNN recently announced the final tally in the NYC mayor race:

Zohran: 50.4%

Cuomo: 41.6%

Sliwa: 7.1%

Others: .6%

The end results is Zohran: 50.4% vs Not Zohran 49.3%

This is a horrific result for any major candidate in New York City and should serve as a wakeup call for how deeply unpopular the far left lunatics actually are. In contrast 2021's election Adams beat Silwa by almost 40 points (66% to Curtis 27%).

I hope I'm not the only democratic-leaning unaffiliate who can see just how devastating and damming this result is