Con said:
"Pro is asking you to not penalise me for forfeiting, it is appreciated."
But I never said this , I think con is in some confusion, Topic is debate must be voted on basis of arguments not on forfeits.
Why I chosen this topic:
What is forfeiture?, When some persons skips some or all rounds in a debate, then system tells forfeited a round. I strongly argue this is not only a forfeiture. But many rule followers says this is alone forfeiture. There is another indirect forfeiture, that is when person just write single sentence like hi, welcome to debate, etc and publish that single sentence irrelevant of topic then we want to consider this also a forfeiture , but I seen many people not considering this as forfeiture.
I am ready to give titles of those debates you can check it.
- Religion is beneficial-Autism vs greatsungod ( In that debate , on first round autism forfeited , but on second round pro(greatsungod) also indirectly forfeited saying ok, that is (ok) not related to topic. And in 4 votes almost 3 votes are decided on basis of Con(autism) forfeiture, but he gave a detailed explanation of topic in round, but none of 3 voters consider that. That single word by pro (ok) is also a forfeiture ,but no body considered that as forfeiture. So that is a sophisticated win for pro by just saying 4 sentence in round 1 and one word in round two, That debate should be a tie. This is a totally unfair. Debate link : Religion is beneficial .
- Islam is the only true religion- Hana vs greatsungod /// I would vote this debate as funniest, Unfair debate of all time, foat, In this debate pro is Hana, and a con is sun. Pro forfeited all round, But con also forfeited all rounds except a first round , also in that round con not forfeited but left blank space as an argument. According to God of fair that also must be forfeited, so both pro and con forfeited all rounds, so it must be a tie, but some ugliest people voted unfair, on 5 votes , 2 votes said that is a tie, but remaining three voters including moderators [ Barney] voted for con , They are accepting that blank space of con as argument. That is totally unfair .I think that voters have void in their head, brain is missing JK, Debate link: Islam is the only true religion
I request all to check these debates.
Voting on basis of arguments does not affect the punishment of forfeiture:
I firmly say that voting on basis of argument does not affect punishment of forfeiture, For that we want to consider Forfeited argument as zero argument this also include single word like ok, or single sentence or argument that is unrelated to topic that should be considered as zero argument.
Eg:
If I posted argument in a one round debate , but con is forfeited , so con produced zero argument, so directly I want to win, so we can see that punishment of forfeiture is not affected, But I [Pro] produce a argument that should be related to topic.
Answer to con's question:
",how can one strategize a 4 Round debate where the opponent hides all arguments until later and spama them Rounds 3 and 4?"
Answer: If Con forfeited first two rounds but posted his arguments in later rounds, In this time also we want to consider quality of arguments, not on forfeiture, but as per rule skipping 50 % rounds only reduce conduct points,. As con skipped two rounds , we should consider all arguments thoroughly and, vote for pro if pro published his arguments genuinely all rounds , if pro also skipped 2 rounds by saying reasons in single sentence ,unrelated to topic, then we want to consider that debate as 2 rounds if they produced arguments.
round 2 is not modified by ai
The base essay is written by me and enriched by chatgpt for better understanding of all people.