Brown_Pride
All Star
So it's been a long standing tradition within the confines of online hip hop intellectualism (
) for debates to follow a particular course.
Stage 1. The Claim
This is the portion of a thread where someone states a thought, claim, idea, hypothesis.
Stage 2. Rebuttal/Support
This is where someone comes and either supports "The Claim" or refutes it.
Stage 3. Intellectual Argument
This stage is often the shortest lived. This is the part of the thread where ideas, thoughts and beliefs are shared, exchanged, challenged and sometimes adopted.
Stage 4. The Shyt Storm
This is inevitably where 90% of all threads end up. At some point or another threads will degenerate into a game of the dozens. NOt that this isn't fun sometimes but when it comes too soon or when stage 3 isn't completed you essentially have a still born thread--partly developed, filled with potential but dead.
So in an effort to avoid this and "mod" ourselves a bit. I propose we have a mechanism to call a vote of sorts on a thread victor (i.e. your idea is judged by a jury of your peers)...
Now, now quite down i know many of you made this face immediately
Hear me out though.
For this to work the "sides" shyt that plays out needs to die. If we do this we need to remain honest about the thread, NOT previous threads, not hurt feelings but rely solely on what has been presented in the thread by the parties who are arguing.
So while you might agree with someone and the IDEA they have if you take a "juror" approach and look at JUST THE EVIDENCE (the ideas and arguments presented in the thread) you should be able to arrive at a conclusion as to who won.
With that being the idea I say a person in a thread can call for a vote, the other parties must agree and THEY must be the one to post the poll (this will be a sign of agreement).
IF they do not agree they can post further, if the party who requested the vote calls for a vote again then at this point HE can create a vote thread.
In other words
Step 1. Party 1 calls for a vote
Step 2. Party 2 either creates a vote poll or post further
Step 3. Party 1, after party 2 has posted and given 24 hours, can create a vote thread.
Whatta ya think? I'm opening this up to adjustment and input. I'll reserve the second post for adjustments to the over all idea and let's see if we can't arrive at a way to dead some of the non productive shyt around here.
) for debates to follow a particular course. Stage 1. The Claim
This is the portion of a thread where someone states a thought, claim, idea, hypothesis.
Stage 2. Rebuttal/Support
This is where someone comes and either supports "The Claim" or refutes it.
Stage 3. Intellectual Argument
This stage is often the shortest lived. This is the part of the thread where ideas, thoughts and beliefs are shared, exchanged, challenged and sometimes adopted.
Stage 4. The Shyt Storm
This is inevitably where 90% of all threads end up. At some point or another threads will degenerate into a game of the dozens. NOt that this isn't fun sometimes but when it comes too soon or when stage 3 isn't completed you essentially have a still born thread--partly developed, filled with potential but dead.
So in an effort to avoid this and "mod" ourselves a bit. I propose we have a mechanism to call a vote of sorts on a thread victor (i.e. your idea is judged by a jury of your peers)...
Now, now quite down i know many of you made this face immediately
Hear me out though.
For this to work the "sides" shyt that plays out needs to die. If we do this we need to remain honest about the thread, NOT previous threads, not hurt feelings but rely solely on what has been presented in the thread by the parties who are arguing.
So while you might agree with someone and the IDEA they have if you take a "juror" approach and look at JUST THE EVIDENCE (the ideas and arguments presented in the thread) you should be able to arrive at a conclusion as to who won.
With that being the idea I say a person in a thread can call for a vote, the other parties must agree and THEY must be the one to post the poll (this will be a sign of agreement).
IF they do not agree they can post further, if the party who requested the vote calls for a vote again then at this point HE can create a vote thread.
In other words
Step 1. Party 1 calls for a vote
Step 2. Party 2 either creates a vote poll or post further
Step 3. Party 1, after party 2 has posted and given 24 hours, can create a vote thread.
Whatta ya think? I'm opening this up to adjustment and input. I'll reserve the second post for adjustments to the over all idea and let's see if we can't arrive at a way to dead some of the non productive shyt around here.
