Voting on debates is too subjective.

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I have found, via inspection, that the votes on who won a debate is way too subjective. Some votes do not reflect the contents of the debate. I saw one where the debater who used many sources was awarded NO points when the debater  with NO sources was awarded points for "better sources" (?). It seems  wrong.

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Voting is just people giving their opinions. If you dont want voters, then debating in forum is better. However, I never felt too much urge to chase voters regarding their votes. I want to encourage people to vote, not discourage them by attacking every slightly bad vote. However, there is an entity on the site who reports votes constantly.
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Judging sources should be about the quality if the sources not number if sources to avoid free points by source spamming. A person with 1 source could theoretically have better sources than one with 20. 

It could be the difference between 20 sources from buzzfeed or infowars vs 1 source of a video of the event being debated over. 
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The situation was ...person A has 20 quality sources. Person B had ZERO sources. Yet the voter gave credit to person B.  How could that stand?
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I don't usually award source points but the best reasoning I can think of is if one person uses sources that disprove his own point or his opponent turns those sources against him. 
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I saw one where the debater who used many sources was awarded NO points when the debater  with NO sources was awarded points for "better sources" 
That's why there's a report button for votes.
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So as Wylted said, awful votes may be reported and will usually be deleted. But the system will always be subjective as it depends on people donating their time to casting votes.