Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36948568-20181207133959/@comment-25615841-20181210170134

Topic: A week is quite long. I like the idea of having a grace period for people to prepare, but it feels like it would stretch out too much. Additionally, it allows for plenty of space for moderation of debates so there aren't any repeating or straight up garbage ones. Only question: Should each thread be locked before the debate starts?

Participants: Couldn't agree more. Nothing needs changing here; DoTW should be welcoming and open to anyone wishing to take part.

Team: Do you mean that Judges divide participants into teams regardless if their views and opinions? That wouldn't be a good idea. Don't see why participants should be limited by making the teams perfectly even, either. The only part here I personally agree with is the reveal of the participants. However, if they're revealed at a later date to the initial reveal of the debate, would there be a registration phase and where would it start?

Marking Scheme: Waiting on ya :P

Judge: Not sure if there's a need for judging on scale as opposed to just giving an open opinion and selecting the better team. As for the appointed user; any requirements?

Format: Gooood.

Audience: Perhaps. Should there be designated voting phase after the debate for the audience to vote? Not quite sure about the restrictions if the participatants aren't limited, but contenstants definitely shouldn't be allowed vote for obvious reasons.

Reward: Not sure if a month would be a long enough period, though I do think an incentive might get people to participate more. I'd also say it would be cool for the debate winners to feed into the potential user judge. Only small problem I see is that some debates can be won/lost because of the full team and not one person, and I doubt a month is a long enough time for everything to average out.

The best fix for this I can see for this is keep the credit, but list a certain amount of the top debaters, possibly including participation points (1 credit for particpating, x for winning) and having the staff judges decide on one willing debater to help out based on several other factors, like activity and merit outside of DoTW if it comes down to it.

Role Idea Contest: Plenty of elaboration needed, but this isn't the first time an idea was suggested. I can totally get behind something along these lines.

Favourite Role: This could pretty much just be a spinoff of DoTW, or a small thing. Don't think there needs to be an entire competition and a ruleset the size of the above.