Hey. Do you know when Round 1 begins?
Or if this needs 1-2 more people
Hey. Do you know when Round 1 begins?
Or if this needs 1-2 more people
Featuring Debate Craft's first official TRT tournament.
The three subjects that determine the resolutions and debate material are poetry, philosophy, and history.
Here are some important ground-rules to lay out.:
This first stage of the TRT is strict and exclusive, but the second stage shall be different.
Anyone can vote. But this first stage will require at least one voter who is willing to make a video vote on the tournament debates on the DebateCraft YT channel.
(If you were on DART, think WeaverofFate.)
To register, type /in and specify whether you wish to be a debater or the voter representative for the YT.
Debaters:
Voter:
My free-time is very short recently. But I might be able to fit a few votes within that small window
If this tournament doesn't start within the next few days, I will be forced to resign.
Join a piano-themed or parkour-themed club or community for people your age that participate in either of the things that you like.
Start socializing and making friends. Eventually you meet a woman that you really like and click with through your social circle, then start building something from that.
Use dating sites as your secondary tool.
Those two combined as a daily thing will maximize your chances. You will be several steps ahead of modern society.
And please don't listen to the advice from me or anyone on this website without verifying any of it for yourself.
Determine what your short-term and long-term goals are.: Casual, long-term, short-term. Dating to marry?
Figure those out before deciding anything.
What are your religious beliefs? Your politics, your values, morals or ethics?
For committed relationships, you find women who share these things in common with you. Catholics marry catholics, muslims marry muslims.
Don't you see how many problems arise when two people of different belief systems get together? Avoid that.
Secondly, you will need to determine what your hobbies, likes, and dislikes are. Your favorite music, movies.
These are the things you will bond over.
Don't pay for dating sites. Sign-up for them, but you can still find plenty of dates if you use it for free.
In my personal opinion, the dark mode looks better. Even if I primarily use light mode.
But in all actuality, the site design is acceptable either way.
Both versions are modern while preserving the traditional style.
DebateArt's ugly format was as outdated as YahooAnswers.
Farewell.
/in
Yeah, but no one is really living forever. Even if you try and live perfectly healthy, you are still gonna die.
Unless you become a Turritopsis dohrnii.
YOU ARE FOR YOUR RELGION OR AGAINST IT THAT IS THE ABSOUTE TRUTH OF IT
Except in your case where religion is a trend rather than a lifelong commitment.
I'm in.
Let's rush to get this started
/in.
Let's get the ball rolling.
If it's a legitimate debate but in the form of rap.
Like bars instead of arguments, I'm down.
Hey, sorry for the ping.
Can you guys investigate this? I suspect a situation might have occurred, or someone said something to OP.
What happened?
True.
This is why we have movie franchises like The Matrix.
Memory is a skill, and like any skill, can be improved.
Some parts of an argument you will have to commit to memory.
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 and burned out by this process.
So I'm going to suggest an obvious a solution.
Know which debates you plan to vote on ahead of time. And have several google docs open for each of those debates, and begin the voting process while the debate is going on to give yourself a headstart.
Rather than attempting to do all the work when the debate is finished.
If you wait until the very end, you're going to be frustrated and try to speed through the work it takes to vote. And you're going to miss like 90% of the debate. But if you vote AS the debate is going on, you only have to commit to memorizing 1 or 2 arguments at a time. So keeping a recap, and reminders of both sides in a google doc will save you time, effort, and work.
If you have a tournament debate that is currently active, please submit the link to it here in this thread for me to keep track.
I don't wish to miss any.
I don't reject your idea. I believe it's a good one, under the right circumstances.
I have an idea for a second advertising campaign that needs 4 people. If you're interested in the details, I'd be happy to discuss them with you.
I have experience with successful advertising campaigns, and this idea is a good one (as long as you are using debate servers, are vetting the people you're inviting, and the servers have no rules against poaching.) but it is unsustainable long-term and is primarily useless as a primary source of advertising.
Unless you're willing to outsource all your energy, effort, and free time to making this a fulltime thing.
Now we're talking.
These are engaging, high-quality posts I love to see.
This is because people rarely vote. We could have dozens of debates and fewer votes or lower quality votes, which is what we have for casual and rated debates. But since we already have that, why do we need it for UltraRated?
Voting expectations can be clarified in the forums. Tests to be granted such privileges are unnecessary and already diminish voting quantity.
Votes not according to established standards & criteria can be removed, until quality is up to par.
And volunteers can always be selected. Established voters like you or whiteflame have no need to pass a test.
I mean we have this for rated and casual debates. This was the default elo for months, and switching UltraRated to be the default hasn't resulted in fewer casual and rated debates. You can still see rated elo.
Compared to the DART average, the number gap of debates is wide.
The Ultra-Rated is stifling member potential.
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 rating system (pre-2023 update), and this was when site activity was peaking. There were consistent debates, and debating was actually fun.
When the update hit, everything was fucked.
Elo scores stagnated, even for consistent debaters with a high win-rate.
This is less of a complaint, as it is a genuine criticism. If you are someone that enjoys recreational or competitive debate, then I can't be alone in feeling this way. The site eventually grew quieter. That was Mike's biggest fuck-up.
If the ultimate goal is to grow the site, then this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
And I don't see the platform generating any traffic, until this obvious problem gets resolved.
Currently, the elo rating system for this site focuses too much on punishing loss, than it does on rewarding victories.
The way casinos entice gamblers is with the promise of a potential victory, and that thrill is their incentive for participating. That risk-reward ratio reinforces the cycle of addiction.
But now, victories have been rendered meaningless.
The reward has been completely removed from the risk-reward ratio, and now all we're left with is the risk.
This is why we have no high rollers.
We have the Ultra-Rated tournaments as the new source of ranking, which in of itself in a system of self-sabotage for generating traffic. Only a certain number of people can join at a time, so inclusivity is a problem for competitors.
Tournament outcomes take too long, and there are very little to no updates. And the requirement for entering each round serves as a deterrent for participation at all.
Sites like Chess.com and Lichess.org do very well because they use a reliable elo system.
If you want a growing site rather than a stagnating one.
Forget the advertisements, forget the controversy, forget the server, and forget the YT channel.
Those come later.
Fix the Elo system first.
The whole point for a new product, is it is meant to surpass the original.
It's been 4 years, so why are we settling for an inferior ranking system?
(I am not criticizing forum posters by the way. I just meant that this thread will be pointless for you, if you are not a fan of debating on this site.
But if any of you disagree. Please share your thoughts.)
I'm /in.
Whether you reject or support trans people is completely fine.
The arguments you made in the OP are logically sound on their own, even if there are rebuttals.
There is nothing wrong with Greatful's argument either. If that theory about the delusion has merit, then it warrants some consideration.
But his suggestion seems slightly inconsistent with his religious beliefs.
As he has argued that God is transgender.
Read Dale Carnegie