Board Thread:Debate of The Week/@comment-28112409-20171002232846/@comment-27804907-20171008225348

I'm not a big fan of having judges for this. If anything, I think if you must have anyone say which side is better, it should be like comicvine - that is, the people get to vote. No picking a small group to do it. There's no clear cut winner, and the judges are just going to pick whoever debates better, so that means you want to pick the team with the better people on it, or pick the one you can spout the most stuff about, even if it's not true, it just has to be done well. Why join the team with the less skilled people? You don't gain anything if you don't win, so you might as well just go for the win. Not rewarding people for doing better as a whole means that people will only join if they want to debate, and not so they can just get a reward. Maybe the chance for being deemed better than the other team does make more people join, which means more activity, but do you really want that kind of activity? A river of people who are just trying to win imo is worse than a stream of quality posters who debate what they believe.