dayokanu: After the debates, Can the floor be thrown open to insult people? If yes can you pencil down my name for that section

Emi Okunrin mewa,

Ogboju le oogun so omo aje niko. Eni ko o mo, Eni mo o ko,

O mu ida sile o fi ogun enu pani (He that put down the sword and used words to kill)

Jarus:

Don't worry, it's only when the debate is on that the floor will be available only for the debaters, coordinators and judges. After declaration of results and judges packing their notes, the floor can be declared open for the bench throwers and operation wetie

Jarus:
1, COOGER: Cooger has been on Nairaland for more than 4 years and has been a valuable member of the forum, contributing to different topics in different sections. He brings to the table versatility and experience. He is also well-known for his command of the queen’s language

Johndoe100: I am loving this. An UNBIASED debate, organized by haters, judged by haters, and debated by haters. What could be fairer than that? Let me guess, the topics will mainly be about.........the state of the nation.

Gbawe:

No .... folks will debate Ukranian politics and American celebrities.

Johndoe100: I am loving this. An UNBIASED debate, organized by haters, judged by haters, and debated by haters. What could be fairer than that? Let me guess, the topics will mainly be about.........the state of the nation.

Gbawe:

No .... folks will debate Ukranian politics and American celebrities.

ilugunboy:

Yes Pukkah...state exactly what you have against the nomination rather than asking if am kidding or not.

Gbawe:

Thank you for your vote of confidence but I already disqualified myself very early on in the process. The chosen judges are excellent choices. All are good people in my opinion. The main thing is to thank the mod for this initiative. Whether we appreciate it or not, Nairaland is like Nigeria. If efforts are not made to deliver change then the status quo continues.

@Jarus and OAM4J.

Good choice guys. It is only Talina I do not know but all others you chose are Nairalanders who conduct themselves admirably on this forum. Una do well.

Jarus: For the maiden edition, I propose we have our Politics section posters of the years 2010 and 2011 and their runners-up as debaters.

These are
Ekt_bear (2010 PS POtY)
Katsumoto (Runner-up)
Gbawe (2011 PS POtY)
Onlytruth (Runner-up)

What do you guys think?

taharqa: [size=18pt]I hope you know there is a huge problem here. Lets not kid ourselves, if there is going to be a debate on NL in d politics section it would eventually be about what the present admin is doing or not doing. And when you hv someone like Gbawe as a participant in such a debate, another debater with a somewhat opposing view-set should also participate. A debate where a particular view is favourd from the outset is no debate.....[/size]

Johndoe100: This debate is like a three dollar bill. If we are to have a debate why can't we have some honest judges? I nominate myself, IFIHEARAM, BILLYONAIRE, D-EXPLORER,
WEREPERI, MANDALAGUY (I hope this is how his moniker is spelt)and any other patriotic member.

lagerwhenindoubt: There is a strong contention for bias especially among the judges who lean towards a political group or learning. It is our deepest hope that they will put aside these obvious bias and objectively debate with balance of ideals in mind. imagine @Gbawe and @Beaf in agreement with some people-centric ACN plans

Jarus:

We recognized that, but I think the risk is very low, given;

1, Judges were carefully selected and a good number of forumers have confidence in them

2, From all the comments, judges will naturally want to be seen as doing objective job. Settling for them of the lot is a vote for their ability. With the nice words about them, I don't think anyone would want to disappoint, even in practically inconsequential online debate like this.

3, Diversity - This is the most assuring point. 5 judges, spread in different parts of the world, with different worldviews, cannot all be wrong. These guys are not known for a single line of opinion. Nobody can, in one sentence, summarize what they share in common. e.g if you have Dayokanu and Gbawe in a team, you can tell what they share in common, same if you have a team of 5 with Billyonaire, Beaf etc, you can tell what they have in common. For our team of judges, no common denominator in ideology and viewpoints. This diversity will be helpful in reaching objective conclusion. After all, we are going to aggregate their scores for each debater and average it.

Worst case scenario is having one or two biased, but their bias will easily be evened out or rendered insignificant when the other objective 3's scoring/judgement are averaged with it. If 2 biased judges score someone 4 over 5, and the objective ones scored the person 2, the average comes to 2.8, which is not significantly different from teh objective score of 2.

Johndoe100:


Who are the honest judges? I have given you a list choose from. We the members (to bad you don't get to decide who the members are is it not) want anyone on the list. This will give your "debate" some credibility. By the way was this debate the idea of one of your opposition friends? As an aside this is something I have always found fascinating about this politics board. Are you the mod for ALL the members or just those you like?

Jarus:
If I say I understood what you wrote up here, I will be deceiving you.

Jarus:
If I say I understood what you wrote up here, I will be deceiving you.

Johndoe100:

Quite simple really. We patriotic members feel you lean towards those opposition members (enemies of progress if you ask me). We wonder if the debate was conceived as a way to forward the interest of the opposition's viewpoint. You have an excellent opportunity to prove us wrong by including some of our nominees as judges and debaters in this debate of yours.

Johndoe100: This debate is like a three dollar bill. If we are to have a debate why can't we have some honest judges? I nominate myself, IFIHEARAM, BILLYONAIRE, D-EXPLORER,
WEREPERI, MANDALAGUY (I hope this is how his moniker is spelt)and any other patriotic member.