Debates?

[Casanova]

[@]@Catzsy[/@] I'd disagree?

It took scott 12/13 days AFTER closing debates applications (which they were open about... two weeks longer than they should have been roughly) for him to finally pick someone. I personally asked him several MILLION times about debates applications actually being decided on (before anyone claims that's unfair note I applied and of course didn't get it because I wasn't the best applicant/I've never been flavour of the month) and I was continuously told "tomorrow" "tomorrow night" "once I'm done work"

Maybe there should be more recognition of debates on this forum. Dear god this community is always going to decline at this rate and if people keep saying stuff like "debates doesn't matter as much as HXL" then people just shant bother.

I think it's a complete piss take personally. Not Joey's fault but surely someone could have made a debate in this time!?
POOR. SHOW.

[Zeptis]

We already have enough departments, we don't need to make ones we don't need.

I think the official debates shouldn't get overused really, I think this once a week (which is meant to be happening) idea is much better as there should be a wide range of things to debate about over time along with winning the month of VIP each week. After all, if you're keen to prompt a debate, that's what the members debates section is there for.

Why does it matter how many departments we have, not like we pay anyone so finances is no excuse, having a couple more people supervising that forum and helping create debates would help the Forum run smoother, and that's really all we want, is to have a website the is efficient as possible.

[Grig]

First of all debates do not expanding into a whole department, unlike competitions due to a popularity factor. If debates do get more popular, then some small expansion can be done, but even then I'd be cautious.

Second of all, yes I do agree it took quite a bit to pick a debates leader from what I can see but Joey sadly had to go away and it is just cruddy luck. It's unfortunate that the last few debates leaders didn't get their head really into them, because if done weekly these debates can have some nice hard substance to them.

Also, telling the forum manager to create more debates isn't right because he has lots of work to do, so do the super mods and the whole team in general.

[Alex3213]

Why does it matter how many departments we have, not like we pay anyone so finances is no excuse, having a couple more people supervising that forum and helping create debates would help the Forum run smoother, and that's really all we want, is to have a website the is efficient as possible.

Because we don't need the department, they'd be overused, and because so many debates then exist, there is a high chance that there will be little actually contributing to them. How would the forum run smoother? As I said, I think the weekly debate (whatever day of the week that is, even if it changes on a week to week basis to make sure debates don't become out-of-date) works fine.

My point is that if you are really into debates, post them in the members debates section, we don't need to make a department for it. There wasn't a Jokes department when the forum existed where each member of staff had to post a joke! If the forum will "run smoother", surely the same principle in your opinion will occur by posting a members debate, because this top contributormalarkeyis only an added bonus.