On Friday, May 5th 2017, after more than 12 years, the Debate sub-forum will be closed as part of a wider Community Forums reorganization. This was not an easy decision, but we evaluated each area in Community Forums and determined that Debate required an unusually high amount of staff involvement for a non-Magic area representing a tiny fraction of the overall site's activity. The forum itself will be placed with the Retired Forums. As of Debate's closure, MTGS will no longer be hosting formal Debate threads. Current events can still be discussed in what will become the merged Talk & Entertainment subforum, but protracted arguments in the vein of Debate will be discouraged.
As someone who doesn't frequent debate regularly, I always found the subforum interesting to read, especially in the current climate. Whatever the staff feels is best, but this is unfortunate.
This was not an easy decision, but we evaluated each area in Community Forums and determined that Debate required an unusually high amount of staff involvement for a non-Magic area representing a tiny fraction of the overall site's activity.
Was this a decision made by the Debate moderators then? It was nice to have a place to put potentially vitriolic thoughts where intelligent people could sift through it for you. I was actually trying to find the words for such a thing. It's not something I can do on Dotabuff, haha... Can you suggest any similar forums with a decent mix of political backgrounds like this one has?
Was this a decision made by the Debate moderators then?
The ultimate decision was made by senior staff (Globals and Admins) on the site, which includes me. The Community Forums, Forum Games, and Creativity areas have been significantly declining in activity over the last couple of years and we felt a consolidation was in order. We looked at what we should keep, merge, and retire, and compared the activity levels to the items requiring staff time (reports/time spent moderating/appeals/etc).
It was nice to have a place to put potentially vitriolic thoughts where intelligent people could sift through it for you. I was actually trying to find the words for such a thing. It's not something I can do on Dotabuff, haha... Can you suggest any similar forums with a decent mix of political backgrounds like this one has?
I do not, but if other forum users have good ideas, please let us know. In all honesty, other gaming sites don't have debate sections like this one for some of the same reasons I mentioned above.
It was nice to have a place to put potentially vitriolic thoughts where intelligent people could sift through it for you. I was actually trying to find the words for such a thing. It's not something I can do on Dotabuff, haha... Can you suggest any similar forums with a decent mix of political backgrounds like this one has?
I do not, but if other forum users have good ideas, please let us know. In all honesty, other gaming sites don't have debate sections like this one for some of the same reasons I mentioned above.
The irony is that the reason you guys are closing this debate site is what has made it so much better than most debate sites that I've perused: our moderators are rarely asleep at the wheel, which says a lot about Blinking Spirit and his various helpers through the years I've been here. They put in the work to keep this forum going, and more importantly, were able to discern infractions from bias triggers quite well. There probably are other decent online debate forums, but I've yet to find one better than this one. I'll be on the lookout.
The irony is that the reason you guys are closing this debate site is what has made it so much better than most debate sites that I've perused: our moderators are rarely asleep at the wheel
The irony is that the reason you guys are closing this debate site is what has made it so much better than most debate sites that I've perused: our moderators are rarely asleep at the wheel, which says a lot about Blinking Spirit and his various helpers through the years I've been here. They put in the work to keep this forum going, and more importantly, were able to discern infractions from bias triggers quite well. There probably are other decent online debate forums, but I've yet to find one better than this one. I'll be on the lookout.
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No but seriously, sad news. I guess we'll never be able to resolve our differences with regards to Pi Day.
It was nice to have a place to put potentially vitriolic thoughts where intelligent people could sift through it for you. I was actually trying to find the words for such a thing. It's not something I can do on Dotabuff, haha... Can you suggest any similar forums with a decent mix of political backgrounds like this one has?
I do not, but if other forum users have good ideas, please let us know. In all honesty, other gaming sites don't have debate sections like this one for some of the same reasons I mentioned above.
The irony is that the reason you guys are closing this debate site is what has made it so much better than most debate sites that I've perused: our moderators are rarely asleep at the wheel, which says a lot about Blinking Spirit and his various helpers through the years I've been here. They put in the work to keep this forum going, and more importantly, were able to discern infractions from bias triggers quite well. There probably are other decent online debate forums, but I've yet to find one better than this one. I'll be on the lookout.
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Was this a decision made by the Debate moderators then? It was nice to have a place to put potentially vitriolic thoughts where intelligent people could sift through it for you. I was actually trying to find the words for such a thing. It's not something I can do on Dotabuff, haha... Can you suggest any similar forums with a decent mix of political backgrounds like this one has?
I do not, but if other forum users have good ideas, please let us know. In all honesty, other gaming sites don't have debate sections like this one for some of the same reasons I mentioned above.
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The irony is that the reason you guys are closing this debate site is what has made it so much better than most debate sites that I've perused: our moderators are rarely asleep at the wheel, which says a lot about Blinking Spirit and his various helpers through the years I've been here. They put in the work to keep this forum going, and more importantly, were able to discern infractions from bias triggers quite well. There probably are other decent online debate forums, but I've yet to find one better than this one. I'll be on the lookout.
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We were involved in the decision process and both of us agreed that this was for the best.
No but seriously, sad news. I guess we'll never be able to resolve our differences with regards to Pi Day.
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Any odds we could open up a debate tab on discord? Will never be the same, but it would be kind of cool.
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RIP debate forum.
I liked the slower pace, more focused group of people on here.
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This post is why it needed to go. Lol.
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Are you telling me that we're going to resurrect this forum once a year each Cinco de Mayo?
Not the best year for facts and truth thusfar.