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Great Debater of The Week: Should we have one?

In The Weekly Debates, Should there be a Great Debater of The Week?

  • Keep The Debater of The Week. It's Awsome!

    Votes: 3 7.1%
  • Keep The Debater of The Week. It Is Sort Of Fun.

    Votes: 6 14.3%
  • I Don't Care...

    Votes: 17 40.5%
  • Get Rid Of The Bebater Of The Week. It's Not Too Fun.

    Votes: 4 9.5%
  • Get Rid Of The Debater Of The Week. I Hate Them.

    Votes: 12 28.6%

  • Total voters
    42
  • Poll closed .
Oct 24, 2008
244
0
Savannah, GA
A good idea may be this, as forked in twine:

A) Don't make a big, formal, pompous deal about it. No Weekly Debate with special debater awards and formalized structure. Just make a post. What was this last one, "Are magicians seen as nerds?" or something like that? Just make that a post. It would consist of the following:

"Hey guys, are magicians seen as nerds?"

And then you post your viewpoint. The point is, you don't have to tell people the thread is a debate. It becomes a debate when people start debating it. Just get straight to it. I know I for one have never read anything in that initial post EXCEPT for the topic, and then I skip ahead to the next post. So trim the fat.

B) Make better topics. The magic community is thirsty for intellectual debate and discussion, yet its pool is becoming contaminated with the same crappy topics over and over. Search deep inside yourself, and think of something related to magic that is interesting to read, thought-provoking, and rarely heard. A contrary viewpoint to popular opinion, a way of seeing things new to you... something we're not used to. The reason being, we've all been reading the same topics over and over and over and over again for years, and a new idea (much like a brand new effect) will be a welcome relief.

For reference, stay far away from the following concepts:
"Is magic art?"
"Why I think exposure is bad! Here is a link to free tricks on this one exposure site I REALLY hate!"
"Ellusionist is a terrible store and its shoppers worship the devil"
"On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you hate Criss Angel?"
"Youtube sucks, and here's why"

But, hey - even an old topic like, "Is magic art?" can be interesting to talk about if you put some sort of spin on it: how about, instead, you talk about how your particular magic is art? How you present it as such? Do you blend other forms of art with it? How do you drive the artistic point home in your audience?

I'm not anybody important, but I do appreciate the effort you've had for this, despite the slight, probably unintentional arrogance about the whole thing. Try a new topic as above, and it'll probably be welcomed.

Or maybe you'll crash and burn again, I don't know. I'm not too good with mentalism.
 
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JoeCarr

Banned
Jan 6, 2008
664
0
Manchester
'laissez faire'== Herbert Hoover, the president at the time of the economic depression and wall street crash of 1929, employed that policy and i just find it ironic everytime someone says it, because it was one of the reasons he and the republicans were hated so much... :D
 
Feb 27, 2008
2,342
1
34
Grand prairie TX
The funny thing is though...
In a couple days none of this will matter.
I never understood why people got frustrated with all the "useless" threads.
For the longest time they have tried to make their point across but evidently it still happens and more than likely will.So why get all bent out of shape?
I just simply ignore the thread and look for a more interesting one.They are not that hard to find.
And those that get angry at those post,why dont they just make their own?
If they want something worth discussing than THEY should post something they deem is worthy instead of complaining.
It seems childish to me.
What people here have to remember here is that its an INTERNET forum.
..internet..
 
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Mar 29, 2008
882
3
I think it is because it acts as a form of thread bumping...all this clutter! I have seen good threads get pushed deep into the abyss, but the dumping of useless topics. If the organization was a bit better - or old threads got cast into a library/reserve section - then it wouldn't be such an issue.

I have seen posts go unanswered, because nobody views them - as they are swept to page 10 with 9 pages of bird droppings dumped on top....Dylan's weekly debate - it's not bird droppings....that would be a compliment to them. haha

But hold on weekly debaters!!!! He is going to share someone else's stuff...

Don't
You
Learn
Anything
New

I have too much time on my hands...back to work! Later! DEATH TO WEEKLY DEBATER!
 
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