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Originally posted by Joeiss
And a "mature intelligent conversation" can happen with GT. I just don't think that most of us here want to have a whole tournament setting. We have had some really good and serious threads, not lately, but that doesn't really matter. We all know that we can be good, serious and intelligent posters, but like what DH said, this isn't really the best place to put our minds to work. I would rather do that on paper at school, where it actually matters.
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I happen to believe in putting your mind to work where it doesn't matter so that you'll do better where it does. Practice, in other words. But if you don't want to do that, it's fine. And yes, it's possible to practice thinking and being intelligent.
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I mean, it is an internet site, I am not going to specifically say to my friends, "oh, I cannot go out from 3-4 because I have to attend a debate about videogames". That is just stupid. The debates that I like are the ones that I can post my view or expressions whenever I want, not in a specific time period. Oh, don't get me wrong, I am interested in debating, but like I said, not planned out ones. And what are your theories? I wouldn't mind knowing.
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If you had read the original thread, you would know that the debates were supposed to simply take the form of a thread where someone asks a question and then the team members make their posts in their own time. There were some rules such as a character limit on posts, but there were no time constraints of any sort. That is why people in different time zones could participate even if they were as far away as England. The debate would end when everybody felt it was time to end it. That could have meant a thread sticking around for a few days for all we knew.