Can anyone attest to (and link) a debate where someone actually used 30,000 characters in one round? I don't know if there are any and I definitely don't remember seeing one myself .
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Largest I seen was misterchris with 21,000 some characters.
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@K_Michael
Only on a different site. Had a couple of rounds that went well over that limit.
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@K_Michael
@BearMan
Actually, my final post of that debate was a little over 25,000 characters :)
Oromagi used up 30k in my debate about whether to reduce the 30k limit
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@seldiora
Oromagi used up 30k in my debate about whether to reduce the 30k limit
I think we can agree that that was more to prove a point then it was that he needed that many characters.
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@K_Michael
eh. Considering how Larz "the Beast slayer" managed it in his own website, you could also see if long scholarly papers truly are worth mentioning with that much characters.
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@MisterChris
Actually, my final post of that debate was a little over 25,000 characters :)
I would say I love to debate and argue, but I have lost enthusiasm for formal debate structure lol. When I argue with people in the forums, I am sure I have exceeded 25k characters plenty of times. I usually will keep responding until the other person makes a good point that I have to concede on, or they just stop responding. Some of my back and forths have gotten pretty lengthy. I like de-structuring arguments piece by piece, segment by segment, so forum argumentation is up my alley. But for some reason accepting a debate where my opponent has posted 25k characters seems daunting, and I think I'd end up forfeiting lol.
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@Lunatic
Really? I'm kinda the opposite. I don't really consider arguments on forums worth much effort, whereas I always put max effort into debating on formal debates. I guess I've always loved formal debating. I don't think I'll stop for the foreseeable future.
BTW that many characters for me isn't the norm (I'm typically around 10k characters to 15k at most)
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@MisterChris
10-15k seems about average. I can't believe there was a time on DDO where the character limit was only 8k. Trying to respond to a pro case while also making your own as con was an extreme challenge.
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@Lunatic
Yikes. That's a huge handicap
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@K_Michael
you could also argue from actual articles that are long [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LongPages]