Deliberate use of fallacy

[robvalue]

If you're dealing with a debate that is going to be available on the internet, then no matter what your opponent and the live audience think about who "won" the debate, the internet viewers are the ones you should be trying to reach. So by remaining honest, you will hopefully gain credibility and respect from those viewers and ultimately change the most minds.

If that's not the case, then cheating back at the cheater is more appealing, since it will expose the fraudulent nature of the opponent to the audience, hopefully.

Not that I've ever been in any formal debates! So I'm just putting forward my opinion

You know, I think I'd enjoy doing one though.

Oh, in a formal debate, if you have any fallacy at all, it is likely to be caught, I'd think. You don't want to have your opponent shouting Latin words at you.

Oh sure yeah. [In my imaginary debating career] I wouldn't ever knowingly use a fallacy, except as a way of pointing out the stupidity of someone deliberately using their own fallacies to waste time and take things off track. But a last resort of course.

I take that approach in here sometimes, as a last resort to someone entirely refusing to be reasonable. I claim to be God and such, they don't like it. They tend to ignore me.