Kohai

Greetings,

Coming soon we will be rolling out a new activity feed. When you login you will quickly be able to see what your friends have been up to and what debates / forum topics have been recently updated.

We're building up to allowing people to create posts much like what you can do on twitter / facebook.

I would love your feedback

Greetings,

I recently launched a new home page and I've got some mixed reviews on it. I am working on a few designs and wanted the community's input on site design and development. Please answer the following questions:

1) Do you typically use dark mode or light mode?

2) What information do you want to see on the home page?

3) What part of the current design works and what does not?

4) What color palets do you like?

As it stands, I kinda feel this site feels too much like a modern SASS app rather than a proper debate site.

I've done some experimentation on trying to bring back some of the classic DDO feel. I wanted to bring this design up to the community and get the community's feedback

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.

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.

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:

1. A member of debatecraft for a minimum of 6 months
2. Been active in the community
3. No moderator discipline in the past year

Preferred qualifications:

1. Previous moderator experience

Duties:

1. Participate in moderator / admin chats
2. Weigh in on reports
3. Vote on moderation actions, if needed.
4. Enforce the code of conduct

To apply, please DM me directly and answer the following questions:

1. Why do you want to be a moderator of debatecraft?
2. What experience do you have in running communities?
3. What is at least one thing you would like see changed on debatecraft?

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

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.

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 you see how similar / disimlar you were to another member.

What is really cool is that I built in a political typology measurement. This will calculate where you are on the political spectrum based on how you answer.

Screenshots

test

What quesitons / issues would you like to see on this feature?

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!

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.

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?

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

Over the past few days our team has been working hard to release a few new features. One of these features is an ultratated debate. Ultrarated debates are designed to be the highest quality debates this site has to offer.

You will be assigned a random topic and position, as well as a random opponent as soon as we find one with a similar elo. Ultrarated debates consist of 3 rounds and allow 3 days per argument. Each round has a 10,000 character limit for each side. When your debate receives 3 votes that pass voting standards, the voting period will end.

A list of topics can be found here:

https://www.debatecraft.com/debates/ultrarated-topics

How to submit a topic

Go to your profile -> Badges -> Earn a topic badge. Read the guidelines, take a quiz, and submit topics for ultra rated debates!

Become a certified judge

Go to your profile -> Badges -> earn a vote badge. Read the voting guidelines, take a quiz, and become a certified judge! Eventually this quiz will be mandatory for anyone who wants to have the right to vote on debatecraft.

Happy deabting,

Kohai!

Greetings,

There has been some controversy in recent debates on how AI is used in debates. The question is what should be the default rules for AI in debates? Default meaning that the use of AI is not specified in the description or title.

Question 1: What should be the default rules for AI in Debate Arguments?

Option 1: Blanket prohibition

Prohibited for any reason, including research, argument reviews, source finding, etc.

Option 2: Blanket permission

Permitted for any reason, including permission to copy and paste directly from AI.

Option 3: A middle ground

Prohibited from copying and pasting directly, but permitted to research, review, find sources, simulate rebuttals, etc.

Question 2: What should be the punishment for violating AI rules?

Option 1: No punishment

No warning or bans and let the voters punish them with a L.

Option 2: Progressive punishment

Frist offense warning; second offense 3 day ban; fourth offense 30 day ban; 5th offense 6 month ban, etc.

Question 3: How should we moderate AI VOTES

This is a more serious category as some voters may use AI in writing their RFD or allowing them to think for them.

Option 1: Complete prohibition

Option 2: Partial permission (please discuss)

Option 3: Complete permission

Question 3 How should we punish voting violation?

Option 1: No punishment

No warning or bans and let the voters punish them with a L.

Option 2: Progressive punishment

Frist offense warning; second offense 3 day ban; fourth offense 30 day ban; 5th offense 6 month ban, etc.

Question 4: Should we allow debaters to change the default rules?

Discussion is now open. Thank you for your participation!

Hello friends,

A big problem that has plagued DART and DDO over the past several years is last minute votes that come in that alter the course of the debate. Many of these votes clearly did not meet the voting standard that is required and some of these votes were from the same user muti accounting for a win. This drove several high quality users away from the site.

DebateCraft has a feature where moderators can continue to remove votes even after the voting period is over. This will prevent last minute vote bombs and cheating attempts.

If you see a vote that doesn't look quite right, please message a moderator and we'll review the vote.

Happy debating!

RT

Here is the lineup of our current staff and moderation team

Owner - Airmax1227

Administrators

1. Savant - Main developer
2. Mikal - head administrator
3. Kohai

Developers

1. Savant
2. Lunatic
3. Bullish

Moderators

1. Whiteflame - Head moderator
2. Leaning
3. Ragnar
4. Fauxlaw
5. SkepticalOne

Greetings,

As you all know we are officially in alpha! Unfortunately that also means there are a lot of bugs and growing pains. If you found a bug please repot it here.

Note that the best way to do this is through the bug reporting thread in the discord server; however, we recognize not everyone wants to use discord.

Hello friends,

We have an exciting new feature to help make debatecraft a more enjoyable place. We now have the ability to filter out offensive / sensitive content. If you don’t want to see such content go to your profile - settings - hide offensive content.

This tool gives the moderation team more options to consider when making a decision on a post.

Overview

This is a log of moderation actions including but not limited to bans (both temporary and permanent) and permission restrictions. Not included in this log are bans impacting accounts which were created exclusively for commercial advertising or spam-related purposes or people who want to voluntarily close their account. The information given for each kind of log entry is stated below:

1. Entries of permanent bans will state the date the ban was effectuated and provide a brief summary of why the user was permanently banned and will include any relevant posts.
2. Entries of temporary bans will state the length of the ban and the date the ban was effectuated
3. Entries of closed multi-accounts (i.e. old accounts of otherwise active users) will state the date the ban was effectuated.
4. If there is a disagreement between the moderation team on moderation sanctions and a sanciton occurs we will list the moderators voting in favor of sanctions and against sanctions.

The moderator who made the ban ruling will also be included in all entries. Moderation will not offer public comment on the reasons for temporary bans unless and until either (a) the banned user returns and raises the issue publicly or (b) public interest outweighs the banned user's privacy concerns.

The reason why the public needs to be informed is so that there is transparency with our process and to increase trust between users and moderators. In addition debaters and mafia moderators expect someone to be able to finish out their ongoing debates and games and will need to know if someone cannot due to moderator action.

Welcome to DebateCraft.com!
 

Please use this thread to introduce yourself to the DebateCraft.com community and to tell us a bit about yourself and your interest in debate! We hope you enjoy this site, its features, and, especially, it's wonderful community! We're happy to have you!