Rally To Restore Sanity icone

This articolo is basically about something i keep seeing around the dibattito spot o on other dibattito forum and it is, in my opinion the rudest and most insulting thing te can do in debate

no I am not talking about swearing

no I am not talking about denying the existence of someone's believes

no I am not even talking about flashing your opponent to distract them

I am talking about the one line comment

some of te may be slightly confused as to why I get so annoyed da this so let me clear things up

I have no issue with people bringing up a new point that they have just summed up in a short space, I...

I was going to call them the "Ten Commandments" but felt someone might be offended da that (either a religious person thinking I'm blasphemous o a secularist thinking I'm mostrare a bias towards religion. Lose, lose, te see). Also, I couldn't come up with ten rules.

So instead, observe the Golden Rules of the dibattito Spot.

1) RESPECT your fellow debaters. They believe what they do for a reason just like te do. As opposed to simply trying to explain why they're wrong, explain your point of view and LISTEN to theirs. If te find te simply just cannot understand their views, o that they will...

This is a dibattito seed, and was last edited on 8 April 2008.

As a fan of debate, I've often railed at the absence of actual dibattito in the dibattito spot. Therefore I present a domanda for debate:

Are mechanical pencils o wooden pencils better?

Cinders has done a marvelous job of initiating a number of formal limited debates, so I propose a different type of dibattito format for this one. For this, the Great Pencil Debate, the following dibattito attributes will apply:

Non-judged

Open-ended

Participatory

Moderated

What these mean:

Non-judged is a dibattito format wherein there are no judges...

In our world today, global warming is a growing issue. Global warming (according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary) is an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution. This means we must take action. This is a method commonly known as "going green." We do this da riding bikes, using public transportation, reycleing, and much more. This is common for big cities like New York City, New York o Chicago, Illionois- but what about the smaller towns?



I live in Joplin,...

I'm sorry but I think Obama has comitted plaguerism, observe:

CAN WE FIX IT - 23/12/2000
3 weeks at #1 - 22 weeks on chart

Take your places
Can we fix it
YES, WE CAN
Bob the Builder
Can we fix it
Bob the Builder
YES, WE CAN
Scoop, Muck and Dizzy and Roley too
Lofty and Wendy unisciti the crew
Bob and the gang have so much fun
Working together, they get the job done

Bob the Builder
Can we fix it
Bob the Builder
YES, WE CAN

Bob the Builder
Can we fix it
Bob the Builder
YES, WE CAN

Time to get busy, such a lot to do
Building and fixing till it's good as new
Bob and the gang make a really good sound
Working...