I've reached Top 10 debaters

We'll see how long it lasts, but as of right now: March 5th, 2021 - 5:36 am CST I've made it to the top 10 debaters on the site, yipee.

A pertinent question then, to everybody who's seen or followed my debates: what areas would you suggest I need to improve in? What areas do you think I do well enough on and need to emphasize? Feedback is always nice.

Congratulations. Your improvement, albeit by a couple of identities, is obvious. But, "be yourself," as Oscar Wilde once said, "everyone else is taken."  Your former dependence on Wiki has gone way, way down. I hope I've had some influence on that. In our current debate, I don't think you've used it once. You may have started there, but you've dug deeper to direct sources, and that's great. One suggestion, even though we're in the middle of a current debate, be careful of using cited courses embedded in a source you've also used. Carefully review the embedded source to assure it fully agrees with the primary source. As a voter, I scrutinize such second-tier sourcing, and often find there is not the correlation you want to have.

You can tell I'm a great believer in good sources, and I'm disappointed that the Mods have seen fit to make sourcing an optional tactic in the new voting policy. Again, as a voter: fair warning: I will never make it optional. If an argument can be damn good without a source, it will not be hurt with one. My "damn good" is a high bar, and I have little regard, as a voter, for "It is because I say so." I've been criticized for that standard, but no one has convinced me yet to back off.

Thank you for the advice, I'll be sure to be even more careful with that - though I do believe in this particular instance I think it was sufficient there, but I will be sure to double check.

Remember, however, that I can afford the time to do this stuff with some abandon. My schedule is my own; yours has obligations, even to yourself.  Your education is the most important thing you can accomplish right now; don't let this stuff, educating as it might be itself, overwhelm your time. All in good time.

congratulations!

Congrats, you've officially peaked

hey that's my line