You're one of the top text battlers on the site (if not #1). So I would love to see your vote on this!
Won't be offended if you vote a tie or for Greatful. But would love to see your thoughts as a vote, especially if you do go through with making it a rap.
If we want to be pedantic, the first syllable in spinach is stressed, so you wouldn't typically rhyme it on only the second syllable. I only say this cause the convo has been going on so long, but I would generally hesitate to be having these kind of convos with voters before they vote. Beyond saying something like "make sure you read the annotations and are fair to both sides." I also think the door was opened partially by Lucy making comments on judgments before posting a vote, which I would generally discourage due to this kind of thing.
It's a slant rhyme. I used slant rhymes as well. I would typically pronounce it "spin-ich"
Yeah defending L is definitely the easier side, and I heavily abused that advantage lol. Only downside was using up a lot of ammo in the first round but I knew after that I could focus more on rebuttals/reframing stuff to keep things from getting too stale.
Always a bit hard to translate flow to writing. Part of me wants to perform it for that reason, part of me knows my delivery would probably be terrible.
Gemini liked my more predictable flow more than yours (again probably biased from not seeing them performed) and it rates puns/quantity of references highly so it scored me a bit higher. (Voters, ignore this and vote based on your own comparison of the raps.)
I might be too harsh on your flow without hearing the verse performed. But I'm not sure how it would work over an instrumental with the length of the lines and syllable differences. Is it meant to do a single line in the space for a few lines, or just be rapped really fast?
Didn't use AI to write bars (I don't think it's good at that sort of thing yet anyway). But after it was over I asked Gemini who won lol.
Thank you for taking the time to vote!
Muchas gracias
Please vote on this, and if you do, please read the lyric explanations to make sure you catch all the references. Some of them are subtle.
My lyrics are explained here (I aggregated explanations for each round): https://docs.google.com/document/d/15DDz1jgofVPoLvQf0GJHMwuwAWKpK-4d708OPnmMJbw/edit?usp=sharing
Greatful's are split between the comments section and this link: https://pastebin.com/x8fjUGRG
Yeah, good job and thanks for the battle. Also I fixed the link.
I mean Christian rap is a thing
Debate comments aren't linkable yet, but I added a mention of the comment number to your round.
Okay, I'll see what I can do
Not sure what you're talking about? It's a link to an external video
Ok, ball's in your court
Yep, almost finished.
If we're not recording do you want to change arg time to 3 days?
We can do text then. I just put that in the description because I said "Maybe we could record verses?" and you said "just make the challenge then." Also thought it could be good content for YT. But we don't have to do audio. But then you can't complain if people don't catch your flow.
Why would Sidewalker want to delete a debate they're clearly going to win?
Since I can't edit my vote, I'll say this here: If you do stick with P1 in the future, that might be doable but I think you'd have to go more in depth to why "they have access to knowledge that would allow them to know whether or not the event occurred" applies here but not elsewhere. I think an argument along the lines of, "the distinction between spiritual and physical was not made clear" could have worked in theory, but it required more evidence/elaboration, and a clear reason why the distinction matters, since I think you have more work to do than Con in this debate.
Would you be open to modding for this community? I know you are probably busy with the other communities you run, but would love to have you.
I think DebateCraft is largely unique as a platform because the community has a voice in how the site is run, and much of that community wants more free speech. We could let the mods decide everything, but then we just have Reddit lite, and why would anyone join that when they could just join Reddit. In terms of which decision alienates more people, the majority didn't want Remy censored at all, so penalizing him alienates more people. I'm struggling to see a way you could concentrate power other than democracy, that doesn't easily become corrupted once the site scales.
The advantage of democracy is that it doesn't rely on a single stubborn person doing the right thing. If his decision backfires and we see bad results, all you have to do is convince the community that we're seing bad results because of this decision, and it can be reversed.
I believe mods have said it's all or nothing, so Remy is off the hook. There's also an updated CoC coming out that is closer to allowing almost all free speech within the bounds of the law.
All right, just made a thread. Hopefully my argument makes sense.
Diddy parties were affecting children who didn't and couldn't consent. Also earplugs are an inconvenience whereas checking one box as opposed to another box is not an additional inconvenience. It actually takes more effort to view offensive posts cause logged out users don't see them.
Also the question, "do you want to see offensive posts?" is not gonna offend people in the same way talking about their wife in a sexual way is. I know I presented that as the analogy, but a better example might be asking something broad like "are you ok with swearing?" I'm not gonna go to Person A's house as opposed to Person B's house just because Person B might ask me if I'm okay with swearing and then abide by my answer.
A better analogy would be someone coming to your house and asking if they can bang your wife (i.e. ask if you want to see offensive posts), then you say yes and get mad at them afterwards for doing so.
No I really do appreciate the advice, didn't interpret what you said as a threat at all. I'm glad you raised these concerns before they become a more serious issue, Kohai mentioned something similar as well.
I believe Airmax is working on getting the site registered as an LLC. I'll have to confirm with him how far along that is the next time we meet. Also, thank you for the advice. I hadn't talked to someone who has done this type of thing before until now.
