RE: The "Cultural Context" Excuse
September 1, 2016 at 2:35 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2016 at 2:50 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(September 1, 2016 at 2:28 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(September 1, 2016 at 2:21 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: The fact that you have to clarify that there is a forum for FORMAL debates, kinda implies all others are informal, no?
Not necessarily. A formal debate has a proper structure and format, which calls for a specialised arena in a group online environment. There is nothing stopping you from having a formal debate out here, it's just exponentially harder to moderate properly. Otherwise you would have to propse a set of criteria for why some threads - my "what's everyone up to" thread, for example - are not debates.
However, if pedantic hair-splitting is the only little victory you can hope for, who am I to deny the baby his rattle?
Uh, I wasn't the one who took issue with the use word of 'debate'.