Best debater award

[Imran Siddiqui]

What's wrong with circle-jerking anyway? ... er, I mean

[Dauphin]

Are people taking this award and voting seriously?

Give my other two nominations to Ned and Fez.

[Ned]

Originally posted by alva


I love Kerry ?

When he says he was wrong about his antiwar activities in 70-71, perhaps.

[Rogan Josh]

(to be retracted if anyone votes for me)

[Arrian]

Too "sophomore in college getting first taste of independence and smoked too much before coming to class and is starting to reshape world view based on limited amount of new knowledge" annoying.

MtG
Real Boris
Spiffor

The third spot was a tossup between Spiff, GePap, Sikander, DanS, and others I couldn't be arsed to really think about.

Honorable mentions:

Che: smart, vaguely reasonable commie.

DinoDoc: manages selective quibbling without actually being drawn into the debate. He's found his niche, it seems.

Ben Kenobi: holds christian fundy views that are difficult to defend, especially here at 'poly, yet most of the time manages to be worthy of reply, and does so without flaming and such. This sets him apart from other fundy posters we've had.

Oerdin: US military psyops meets Apolyton. Manages not to be widely hated, so he's doing something right.

Ok, enough.

-Arrian

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Azazel
ooh, computer prowess penis comparison.

Yah.

When it's more concsiely summed up by saying:

'gay computer geek worried over his floppy'.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by bfg9000
Another circle-jerk popularity thread in the OT forum.

If you want to find the best debater, set up a topic and have people debate and let everyone vote on the winner. If you want a popularity contest, you set up a thread like this...

OK - Gay marriage.

@ Molly

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
This is why I love threads like this one. It's a superhighway to little squabbles. Just watch the wounded egos circling.

I don't take it much seriously. It's mainly a popularity contest, with few serious considerations as a bonus.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
This is why I love threads like this one. It's a superhighway to little squabbles. Just watch the wounded egos circling.

You didn't get mentioned? There, there.

[Caligastia]

[Theben]

MtG ain't my fav, he's a mod fer chrissakes...

[Japher]

MtG ain't a good debater anyway. His response ALWAYS begin with "I am an expert in this field so I am right and you wrong"

I think he is good to have on your side in a debate, but a good debater is someone who can either make you think about your stance or prove you wrong... Ned, Che, and Sava are my nominations, even though I never agree with Che, rarely agree with Sava, and almost always agree with Ned.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Japher
MtG ain't a good debater anyway. His response ALWAYS begin with "I am an expert in this field so I am right and you wrong"

He usually backs up what he says if called out, so by proving himself right= proving you wrong then I think that counts.

OTOH, once he starts the debates usually don't get past a couple more posts (unless the other poster is in denial), just a quick pwning.

[Kuciwalker]

(unless the other poster is in denial)

I can think of several posters this happens to quite often

[Theben]

I was gonna name names, but my list got too long.