Ioannes
Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face.
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The average post in this section is several paragraphs long. Several paragraphs of opinion multiplied by 10+ equals too much text for some people D) to read through before writing anything down. Clearly, this needs a change.
In real debating, people have a limited amount of time to speak (say 5-7 minutes). This ensures that everything is kept concise and everyone can keep up with the logic of the debate. To facilitate debating in here, I suggest that two kinds of limits are introduced for this section.
First of all, word limit. For the sake of brevity, posts shouldn't be allowed to go beyond n words where n is a number like 300 or 400. This way, two things will be achieved: posters will be more informative and will say only the important things, plus the threads will be easier to read, making it accessible for more people to participate.
Second, post limit. People should be allowed to post a limited number of times in a single debate. Again, this helps filter out irrelevant locquaciousness and makes posts more informative and costing less effort to approach. The post limit could be "a few," with the admins having the final word.
To illustrate my principles, this will be my last post in the thread, and I kept it under 250 words.
In real debating, people have a limited amount of time to speak (say 5-7 minutes). This ensures that everything is kept concise and everyone can keep up with the logic of the debate. To facilitate debating in here, I suggest that two kinds of limits are introduced for this section.
First of all, word limit. For the sake of brevity, posts shouldn't be allowed to go beyond n words where n is a number like 300 or 400. This way, two things will be achieved: posters will be more informative and will say only the important things, plus the threads will be easier to read, making it accessible for more people to participate.
Second, post limit. People should be allowed to post a limited number of times in a single debate. Again, this helps filter out irrelevant locquaciousness and makes posts more informative and costing less effort to approach. The post limit could be "a few," with the admins having the final word.
To illustrate my principles, this will be my last post in the thread, and I kept it under 250 words.