I was just thinking about something that irks me off and I asked a professional debater about it, and he states that "when debating, It is important to keep your voice strong and clear and to make sure you make your points and unambiguously chose a side". When i asked him about insults during "real" debating, he said that "while poking fun at your opponent lightens the mood, If you use that "poking" to evade or to serve as your rebuttal, It only makes your opponent mad, and makes it clear to your audience that you are too biased to be listened to as a viable source."
For this reason I am making the case that reallly will strengthen people's debating skills and help them more logically present their points.
1. Chose a side and stay by it, if you change your mind or decide to stop debating for any reason, it constitutes a "win" for your opponent(s).
2. Post with correct grammar and well composed sentences, try to visualize that you are debating/posting against someone politically with an audience. After all, all of KMC is watching you.
3. Never generalize, mud sling, or resort to petty "flaming". At the point at which you have thrown an insult, you have just lost your cool, your posture, and the argument in any professional person's eyes. Try watching a presidential debate. You never see Obama or Mcain go at each others throats with "FAIL" demotivational pictures, or cleverly devised insults of this nature. It only makes your opponent mad, makes you look foolish and biased, and makes you lose your cool.
These are all points that I have learned from research or personal experience. If all of us were to take this basic Ideas to heart there would be less "fanboyism", "flaming", or "spam" on this message board, and we would have safer, smarter, more rational debates.
Do you watch Bill O'rielly. Well he is a debator, and he gets mad and pissed, and even throws major insults at people who disagree with him or getting the best of him. Imo he is an idiot.
__________________ "The power of the dark side is an illness no true Sith would wish to be cured of" -Darth Plagueis
Off topic. Wrong section, if you want to talk about politics you can take your liberal asses into the General Discussion forum, so I can pwn you in an unholy fashion.
^Yes but this falls more under general discussion than the Star Wars Versus Forum, and yes it is political when you two have a "lets bash (insert Conservative's name here) fest.
__________________ "You must begin by gaining power over yourself; then another; then a group, an order, a world, a species, a group of species... finally, the galaxy itself."
- Darth Plagueis
"She may be small but she packs a punch and when shes in this mood...she goes for my danglers" - Oghren, Dragon Age
And you're already on a path to make even this into an argument.
__________________ Recently Produced and Distributed Young but High-Ranking Political Figure of Royal Ancestry within the Modern American Town Affectionately Referred To as Bel-Air.
I don't know if your comments are directed at me for what i said about O'rielly. If so i don't know what to tell you. He is not an idiot because i say so. He is an idiot because he acts like a raging maniac when someone disagrees.
I think it is up to the mods to decide if this is the appropriate thread for this post, not you.
I'm all in favour for manners and protocol. Then again, I'm a fascist. If it's not efficient, I go Hulk on everyone's ass.
__________________ Recently Produced and Distributed Young but High-Ranking Political Figure of Royal Ancestry within the Modern American Town Affectionately Referred To as Bel-Air.
__________________ Recently Produced and Distributed Young but High-Ranking Political Figure of Royal Ancestry within the Modern American Town Affectionately Referred To as Bel-Air.
FER TEA!!
Nov 13th, 2008 03:04 AM
