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It's a wonder all these intelligent, mature, patient people aren't intelligent, mature, or patient enough to use the search feature to look for debate topics if none are seen on page 1.
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First of all you can't go bumping old topics. Second of all because of already-pointed out reasons people are discouraged of even posting debate topics in the first place. You can't search up what isn't there..
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Even if they did vote yes, it doesn't mean it's good for the forum. Essentially, the Lounge is for the Serious discussions and topics that aren't spam. The Gas Chamber gets the garbage. What's being proposed essentially kills the lounge and makes a new section to hold all of the same topics, who's namesake of debate topics has no large activity to begin with.
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Forums should go with what the majority of the users want, since the users are what makes the forum... as long as it has some reasonable logic behind it, of course. There are pros and cons of this but it's clear that the majority DOES wish for a debate sub forum and there's no strong enough reason to stand against it. Well at least for giving it a test run anyways.
None of you are wrong in any case but I just think it's something worth giving a try. Plenty of people (like me) really get into intelligent debates. The Lounge hardly is a place where people go if they want a serious discussion. That may be what it's there for but it definitely doesn't play out that way.