Originally Posted by
Aimless
It's obvious that you like debates from the way you presented that ;) Very well thought out so far.
Technical issues aside, though... I'm not sure if it's a good idea to implement that. Not because a debate forum in particular would be bad. But I get the feeling that RYL is already spread out quite a bit, doing more than it was originally supposed to be from what I understand.
I'm not wording this well, but I'll try. My feeling is that RYL should be focussed on support for the issues it's set out to discuss. It's already much more than that, with picture forums, general chats, discussion, reviews and recommendations, creative forums. That's not necessarily a bad thing. But people keep saying it's important that our members aren't confined to the site, that they don't use it as their only means of support (or communication in general, really).
What I'm trying to get at is that I think people should be encouraged to branch out a bit, find contacts and activities elsewhere, not only on the site, if that makes sense. Maybe I'm thinking too far ahead; a debate team forum is hardly the end of the internet as we know it ;) But maybe it would instead be a better thing, for example, to set up a debate team in real life? Maybe others would be just as interested as you are.
Sorry if that sounds too negative all in all. I like debates myself - if not in the regulated form overly so - but I think this would be a very elaborate thing when that's not what the site is about.