Instigator / Pro
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1487
rating
31
debates
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Topic
#3543

DART Voting requirements are excessive

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
0
6
Better sources
2
4
Better legibility
1
2
Better conduct
1
2

After 2 votes and with 10 points ahead, the winner is...

Novice_II
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
2
Time for argument
Two days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
14
1890
rating
98
debates
93.37%
won
Description

Why do you require 100 forum posts? When you require 100 forum posts to vote, you are now limited to only 5 people capable of voting at any given time on the site. Then they must find a debate interesting enough to read in order to vote. You're now in a situation where many debates receive no votes, which means you're not going to get as many returning new users as you would if voting was easier. Does this look like a viable business model to you? If mods do this because of people on alts, well why not make it so mods can take down peoples votes?

DART also has the issue of when you open up a debate, you have to wait for someone to accept it before you can give an argument. This leads to a level of uncertainty when you accept a debate, as you don't fully know if they will do a switcheroo on you and argue something else, or if the title is vague, or if the description is vague, you withhold accepting simply because of the ambiguity of what you may be arguing against, leading to fewer debates happening. Does this seem viable to you? This problem is so bad, I often feel compelled to put my argument in the DESCRIPTION. This is why there is only 10 active debaters at one time, literally more dead than DDO. Not to mention only 3 people can vote.

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@Intelligence_06

He hasn't casted votes because he has not met the requirements

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@TWS1405

Said someone who has casted 0 votes and received 0 votes.

Yes, the voting requirements are TOO excessive for such a small crew that even frequents this cite. Branch out FFS!

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@Novice_II

Yes my beloved.

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@Ehyeh

I am not sure I understand, does that mean you concede the debate?

I forfeit this debate. I just unlocked voting without needing 100 forum posts. LOL so clearly i misinterpreted the rules, that's embarrassing.

Back in my days, we only needed two debates to vote.