How do you debate on sd.net?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-10-28 09:34pm

I've seen some of the debates that go on around here and I was curious: how DO you usually conduct debates on this board?

I'm not asking for instructions on how to debate. I just want to know what you people do in these things.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2002-10-28 09:36pm

Shinova wrote:I've seen some of the debates that go on around here and I was curious: how DO you usually conduct debates on this board?

I'm not asking for instructions on how to debate. I just want to know what you people do in these things.

Nothing really formal, they mostly just grow out of posts and such.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-28 09:37pm

Drive my enemies before me and crush them

Oh wait how?

Hmm normaly I find somone over-zealous on a specfic topic or prehaps under-zealous then I rip thier aurgment apart, occsionaly toss obvious idiot errors to see if they pick up on them(If its my first or second time debating them) Monitior to see how they respond then begin my acutal aurgment after the feints are out there

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2002-10-28 09:37pm

Shinova wrote:I've seen some of the debates that go on around here and I was curious: how DO you usually conduct debates on this board?

I'm not asking for instructions on how to debate. I just want to know what you people do in these things.

First, I'll try every sneaky trick in the book--appeal to authority, strawmans, ad hominem attacks, etc. When that doesn't work I'll change the subject!

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-10-28 09:38pm

Usually we state our case, and if the other party's a fuckwit we start screaming at each other and alluding their parentage to non-human sources.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-28 09:39pm

Insult them, curse their mothers, and damn the rest of their family to hell.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-10-28 09:50pm

Wow. SB's debates usually never get into calc-wars, argument-stomping, counter argument-stomping, source-bashing, and %*&@#$%-level insulting.

The most calc-involved debate I've seen on SB so far was in a debate about carriers vs battleships in space combat, and even that one had less calcs involved than the ones Wong usually gets into. (Now I believe that wherever Wong goes, calc-fests follow ^_^ )

SB's debates seem more common logic-based, while sd.net's seem more hard science-based, from what I can see.

Note: Now I know why I feel intimidated everytime I come into this board. O_O

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-10-28 09:52pm

Everyone's got their own style.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-10-28 09:56pm

My debating style is conceding all my points and admitting defeat soon after anything against my case is brought up. If only everyone was like that, then we could have those political debates during the commercials break.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-10-28 10:44pm

IG-88E wrote:Insult them, curse their mothers, and damn the rest of their family to hell.

Bloody one-upping male offspring of a female dog...

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-28 10:47pm

Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote:
IG-88E wrote:Insult them, curse their mothers, and damn the rest of their family to hell.
Bloody one-upping male offspring of a female dog...

Green-skinned little pig of a hentai-wannabe....

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-10-28 10:48pm

IG-88E wrote:
Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote:
IG-88E wrote:Insult them, curse their mothers, and damn the rest of their family to hell.
Bloody one-upping male offspring of a female dog...
Green-skinned little pig of a hentai-wannabe....

He was ogling my previous avatar, just to let you know.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-28 10:57pm

So was I to tell the truth. I just kept my mouth shut about it.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2002-10-28 11:21pm

Shinova wrote:I've seen some of the debates that go on around here and I was curious: how DO you usually conduct debates on this board?

I'm not asking for instructions on how to debate. I just want to know what you people do in these things.

For me... quite badly...

Then again... I've not had very much practice...

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2002-10-28 11:27pm

I lurk, and just do minor nitpicks, although sometimes I have something useful to say.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-29 02:53am

I try to keep on-topic to the debate as possible (unless for whatever reason someone has a really short attention span and it goes off-topic). But I also try to counter as much as I can with what I know, and then proceed to get pissed off (tho I don't show it) when the debater opposite myself declines to respond to a question made that made a lot of sense, or counter a point.

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-10-29 03:18am

Moral dilemma: There is a troll/moron in the forum... You have a large piece of 2x4...

For the most part I debate rationally. But in political debates it tends to get out of hand rapidly (the whole Geneva Convention thing in ASVS).

Sometimes I will just flame for the hell of it.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2002-10-29 05:13am

Here's my debating style: sit back and enjoy the show until someone says something that nobody else'll correct. Observe:

IG-88E wrote:Green-skinned little pig of a hentai-wannabe....

Shuma-Gorath isn't hentai-wannabe. Hentai is Shuma-Gorath wannabe. So there.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-10-29 07:01am

CTHULU WILL EAT YOU!

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