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You can go to each user and sort their debates by outcome.
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@Mharman
You obv. don't know your LEGO star wars lore
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@David
Welcome back! Good to see you.
Alright, see you next month!
Alright, see you next month!
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For all confuzzled by Speed's post, he is referring to middle school, high school, and college competitive debate teams. Their seasons start around now.
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@Barney
@Tradesecret
Intention has an effect on the degree of punishment... in this case, though, deleting the thread seems prudent. It is up to @Ragnar, however.
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@shadow_712
Yeah don't worry. You'll have your mettle tested soon
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@oromagi
Even if that were the case, I think it would mess up balancing.
At the moment, S&G, conduct, and sources can combine to override an arguments award. This is fair enough, but once you start adding more arbitrary point categories things would get unbalanced very quickly. Winning the debate arguments is more or less the main point of debating... I should imagine it would be harder to cancel out than "I liked sources and styles of this one more."
I also don't think there is an identifiable need. The S&G point is currently the de facto style point system. I know I, if not most, users account for ease of reading in my S&G decisions. If it is anything atrocious, I will dock points.
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@oromagi
I mean, sure, humor has utility. I think I caused a rift in communication, sorry. To clarify, I've been talking mostly about serious, formal debates... and more specifically, the CAPITALIZATION habit within the context of one. I would agree that style, in general, is capable of having utility.
I do stand by that it is undeserving of a voter category, though
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I don't know if I'd call it"huge," but it is exciting nonetheless
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@oromagi
See, now that's different. If that is truly the case, you've put at least a loose amount of forethought into which words are capitalized and which are not, with an intended goal that provides some actual gain. Before you clarified, we were operating on the assumption that most words were capitalized at near-random for no clear purpose other than to identify who you were.
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@oromagi
You don't think a recognizable writing style can have utility in this context?
Sure. It CAN. Once you factor in the effort though, I think you would find a net benefit of 0.
"If nothing else, a distinct style helps people remember who they are reading."
i.e. None worth noting. Your name is already plastered in the debate page, the debate heading section and in the beginning/end of many opponent's arguments.
It really just boils down to: you like it. And that's perfectly fine. I do stylistic choices all the time for the sake of looking cool and stroking my ego. I think it is a stretch to say it serves any other purpose than that, much less advocate it for a points system in judging.
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@oromagi
anyway, I'm guessing that's your way of answering my question
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@oromagi
is there a reason you capitalize various words within the resolution/debate, or is it just a style choice?
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Why the hell would someone build stonehenge and then claim it is an ancient find?
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@Speedrace
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@Speedrace
I guess it was more of a draw tho lmao
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@Speedrace
jokes on you, his real name is Chris
:P
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@Speedrace
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tempting, but I need to get a feel for my school workload a bit before I join this one
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@Intelligence_06
Chaos and blind wagoning is the epitome of this game. If Mharman did not take full advantage of that it would not be proper satire.
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@Mharman
MisterChris has been lynched! He wasn't in the game, so you get another lynch this DP! He was guiltocent!
Goddamnit
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@crossed
Feel free to leave yourself and your children unvaccinated as a scientific experiment to see what happens.
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@skittlez09
For two parents of average height, there is an approximately 1 in 25,000 (0.004%) chance of having a midget child. There is a 0.5% chance of being pansexual. Multiplying the two together, you get 0.002.
This means you get to use your ability on roughly 0.002% of the population.
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@skittlez09
i wish too have telekinesis
Granted, but you can only use it on pansexual midgets.
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@Intelligence_06
I would like to think it was because I'm intimidating, but in actuality it was probably just laziness on her part. LOL
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@SirAnonymous
The reason populations level off is because people are choosing to have fewer children, not because of any harm from vaccines. Vaccines make people healthier by preventing many of the diseases that have plagued mankind for millennia. As the video explained, healthier populations choose to have fewer children. It has nothing to do with vaccines not being good.
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To quote a debate of mine:
According to Forbes,“demographers estimate the world population will decrease in the long run, after peaking around the year 2070. It is now well-documented that as countries grow richer, and people escape poverty, they opt for smaller families — a phenomenon called the fertility transition.”
Whether this is a good or bad depends on who you ask. For a lot of economies (Russia, Japan, etc.) the results are clear. But for places like China and India, it may very well result in cleaner, safer, happier places to live over time.
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@Barney
As someone who closely followed the debate between Vector and I, I think you'd be great to do the write up for it.
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Ironically, I'm unironically ironically typing this post with my clothes iron while taking iron supplements for my iron deficiency. Ironic
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Good job guys. Sorry for my head-emptiness that last day phase
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@Vader
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