I say that there should be an option to have a debate without voters.
I know some of you will say: "you already have that in forum"
But I dont, and neither do new users.
In forum, debate is not 1 vs 1, and debate does not come with character limit or round limit.
Now, most of my debates dont get votes anyway, so I am not really talking about me here.
But I noticed that site lets you have open votes, or judges, but it doesnt offer an option to have a debate without voters.
Debate without voters would be just like formal debates on ModernDebate. Its not something made up by me.
So I figured, on standard debates, there could be an option to have a debate without voters.
Now, anyone can see that most of the debating happens in forum where there are no voters, so its not a crazy idea to give option of no voters to formal debates in the debate section.
Having debates with voters might even prevent people from debating, because most people dont like losing and having voters basically guarantees someone "losing".
What this site also needs is a guide, especially a guide on topic creation.
Most new users cant seem to figure out which topics are auto-loss, which is what led to endless win farm in the past.
Also, most new users write a wall of text with no spacing, making debate essentially unreadable.
While that may be good strategy to overwhelm an opponent, it seriously harms the will of anyone to read that.
Also, there needs to be, like in video games, a guide appearing at the start, as soon as someone makes an account.
It needs to be simple enough so that anyone can understand, short enough so that they dont skip, and interesting enough to stay in memory.
I know that the site right now is not really growing.
Debate sites dont tend to be popular because only a small minority of people is interested enough in formal debating to search for a site specifically for that.
Most people want "safe space", so I figured that if you teach people how to debate anything and give them "safe space" with no voters to perform that debating, it might actually encourage them to stay.
I know that this site isnt originally meant to be a safe space, but most people are fragile. They cant handle defeat. They instantly quit the site.
So I figured that maybe give them safe space, which is not forum where they get destroyed in 4vs1, and which is not debate with voters where voters cause defeats and essentially act as 2vs1.
I know that there cannot be totally safe space in debates, but it can be pure 1vs1 with no any outside input from others to the debate itself.
