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Sagamite: Let me advice you on criteria for each:

Judges: Intelligent, objective and logical people.

Debaters: Intelligent, knowledgeable, articulate and creative thinkers.

jay bee: I concur with saga. He is better off being part of the panel of judges

davidylan: how were the "debaters" selected?
I quite agree with chrisbenegor's thoughts... there are far too many people on that list and to be honest... 190, mrbrownjay, maclatunji? What next? Clowns debating the Italian economic depression?

Trim the list down to the 5-6 most prominent posters on the politics section... me i would go with Sagamite, Coogar, Beaf, Gbawe and Debosky. Serious, intelligent dudes who can make this debate a really fun experience. Having clowns like 190 arguing for or against a serious political topic is a joke.

joanana: Please, explain to me why u always delete my topics? I posted a topic today about Sidney SHELDON NEW NOVELS. I cant find the post? what happened?

maclatunji: Hello! This idea is good in principle but I am looking at so many things in terms of its overall workability/credibility. Is there a way we can create a format where only the debaters, judges, moderator of this section, Mukina2 and Seun will be the only ones that can comment on the "debate thread"? And please look at @Chrisbenogor's suggestions again. There are some that you might want to put into consideration.

I am asking myself, if I want to be debating Nigeria's problems at the beginning of Ramadan? I think not. However, I will not totally rule myself out of this but I am going to be a relatively passive debater. I am arguing against the motion- Nigeria's problems go beyond God-fatherism.

freecocoa: Btw Cuddles,I saw SEEDORD in the list,please is he on the list as a debater or timekeeper?

I believe it should be the latter cos I'm sure you don't want everybody dead from nuclear Gbagaun bombs,abeg i never wan die o cos my bulletproof was stolen last night and i can't afford another one now.

Chrisbenogor: I am not sure I am quite clear on how this would work and if the debaters are comfortable with this then by all means carry on. IMO a debate with individuals battling it out serves for more entertainment than one with "Team accounts". At the end would we have these accounts debating against each other or would we have individuals representing these accounts? By all means camps can plan a strategy but would it be a PDP VS ACN debate or GEJ for the pdp VS Fashola for ACN?




Ok maybe I was not clear enough in my opinion about judges, I did not intend for everyone to start shooting at the debaters all at once, there is no way to avoid that anyway because if the debate is as interesting as I think it would be a sister thread would spring up where people would go back and forth at each other regardless. What I am saying is the final vote should go down to nairaland audience and not a couple of judges. Yes there is the multiple ID syndrome but you have to note that this thread would take those who are really interested serious to read through everything from the beginning to the end before voting.
The real "debate" here is multiple ID's VS where the sentiment of the judges lie no ?
I am sure a model that accommodates the sentiments of the audience along with that of the organizers is feasible.

Good job anyways.


Some more two cents
PS I am getting poorer

breezy047: Cuddles. . .
i sent you a mail this morning but I dont know if it got through.
I'd love to debate AGAINST the motion and Saturday is very convinient for me.
Thanks.

Chrisbenogor: Dear Cuddlemii (Na wa oh only your name self )

To avert the usual disaster that takes place here in Nairaland let me first raise the real concerns that I have seen so far.

My two cents written from the back of my night school class.

Cheers.

Chrisbenogor: Night school nor get ASUU oh we just dey do am jejely dey go. You still dey ph self? Ok as this site don get PM I go wire you email, I hope say your juju dem still get service oh

Abeg slow down for "pedral" character oh. I nor wan read debate by these slimy annoying tribal people for here.

As for swear words, personal attacks personal abuse, infact judges/moderators should have the right to delete any of such posts.

Where is cuddlemii self?

BoboYekini: i like this lol.
btw, that your list of contestants hmm

2buff: @OP I take this to mean you are looking for a husband in possession of a good fortune.

See Babes no wan work mehn.

freecocoa: Hmm its about to get interesting and fun on NL again,this seems like fun.

I must admit,I do miss you on the romance board cuddles,thanks for this idea,NL is fast becoming extremely boring,we could really make do with a hot debate .

adex4skill: -> ''You may Succeed if nobody else believes in you, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself. What you do believe in you will become''
-> ''Babies are born, men are grown but champions are made. So make yourself, and your generation and the next generation will follow your step''.
-> ''It is not how much or how less you have that matters, but how effectively your life is affected by the one you have''
-> ''What you can see is what you become, and what you stand on by decision is what heaven will make you''

Cuddlemii: Alright!
I will have the topic of discussion re-written for clarity sake.

nagoma: The two words CuRRENT and CRISES are too vague to make a focussed and meaningful debate. Does current mean 2 weeks ? 3 months?or 2 years? Or Perhaps 5 years? There are a thousand and one crises in Nigeria , even the Patronage ( what you called godfatherism) can be classified as a crisis. What about gulley erosion and desertification ? Are they also crises or not? I would have loved to be a judge but I guess the debate will end up as the usual NL Polemics and jingoistic tribal sentiments.