(September 1, 2016 at 2:35 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(September 1, 2016 at 2:28 pm)Stimbo Wrote: 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'.
Great. Then there's no argument. Also a synonym for debate.
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