So I guess debate on online forums, need to implement a bell of
sorts to ring when your times up
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Originally Posted by Dennis
I don’t think that debate is stifled at all.
Having a quick Google of the word, I read that debate is defined as a formal, regulated process that has a frame work of rules and guidelines for its conduct.
I suspect that the discussion of controversial topics (which eventually lead to the need for moderator intervention) do not conform to those ideals, leading to a real risk of some posts becoming personal, rude, offensive, etc.
In most controversial posts, I don’t think that I have ever seen posters from either camp cross the dividing line to take residence on the other side. Often it seems, people simply dig in and just shout their views louder and louder with little evidence of accommodating the other side?
Cheers
Dennis
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Unfortunately the reality is Truth and everything that going along with it
in the end is the victom. So how can you get to the truth/be enlighten/
learn/inspire/be inspired without discussion and for the matter debate?
We all know what happens when you bottle things up or stifle discussion,
in the end it just wants to get out. It will become more brutish the more
it is stifled. Thats human nature
Cheers