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A Rate This Debate Button Would Be Useful On This Site
It would be useful to have a "rate this debate" button on the site. You see the same type of thing on movie review website.... Something like "How helpful was this debate" - very helpful, somewhat helpful, not helpful, OR like a letter grade A, B, C, OR a number rating 1 to 10 and 10 highest, etc. It would calculate the average of all the responders and show on the main page the rating for each debate topic and its discussion.
 Grenache  02 Nov 2008 11:34
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Yet another good idea that forandagainst will never listen to.
 
 ur_wrong  03 Nov 2008 03:34
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I think this would be a good option, it would motivate users to create better debates, but I have a bad feeling that people would rate the debates on bias standards. If someone participated in a political debate, but hated politics, then they would most likely rate that debate poorly. If this happened at a substantial rate, some good quality debates may be rated poorly over all, and its score may deter people from participating in it.
 
 verum  02 Nov 2008 18:30
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You're so right Grenache
 
 ash  02 Nov 2008 18:14
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I rate this debate 10/10.
 
 Quincel  02 Nov 2008 15:04
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Yes, I think that it would help.
 
 SlyOne  02 Nov 2008 13:51
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That's a really good idea, it would make the standard on the site so much better
 
 Kirsty08  02 Nov 2008 13:47
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AMEN!!!!!!!!!! Maybe that will be a way of weeding out the ridiculous posters.
 
 Bugman  02 Nov 2008 13:14
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 *cough*2chickas*cough*
by  AxemRanger
 02 Nov 2008 13:28
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I think it would be an interesting thing to have. Just voting isn't enough. >_>
 
 AxemRanger  02 Nov 2008 12:56
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Yes I agree. Very good point and one that keeps cropping up.
It also relates to the age limit, also the quality of the responses somewhat.
Depending on the topic, debaters can be quite critical of others responses, and indeed I have myself thought after words that I could have done a better job.
It is a bit disappointing when you feel you have a good topic and no one responds to it though...;-))
 
 keepmindok  02 Nov 2008 11:47
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 Thanks, by the way I just now saw your shoutbox comments offering help during sylverwyld's proposed duel. Thanks. It takes me a while between posts sometimes because life gets in the middle and hours or days pass sometimes. Anyway, the way I resolved the duel challenge was by choosing Scorpion as my 2nd. Personally, I suspect Scorpion came back as sylverwyld so although sylverwyld called it off saying they were friends I think it really came down to a person can't duel themself. :)
by  Grenache
 02 Nov 2008 12:27
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I think I should be hired to rate all debates and comments. Then there would be a rate the rating button.
 
 justsumguy  02 Nov 2008 18:49
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