One of the more interesting strategies that DDO employs is an emphasis on building sites on “good” domain names. On the about section of Webcorp’s website, you can find, “Our mission is to find premier domain names and build enterprise web applications.” In one of Phil’s debates regarding the issue of whether-or-not-every-DDO-member-should-invite-all-his-or-her-friends-to-DDO, Phil counterargues the point that doing so would flood DDO with spam by stating, “A website like Debate.org, with its prominent name, floating out there on the web, is more likely to be found by spammers and scammers on the world wide web, not from the friends of Debate.org members.” Elsewhere on the WebCorp site, the same idea is implied: “This site [DDO] is currently growing by 25-50 new members daily, with $0 in advertising expenses.”

This, then, is sad news, for DDO is now on the fifth page of Google, and is now falling like a rock. The site is falling off of many other popular search engines’ first few pages as well; no longer is DDO on the first few pages of Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.

The community is growing aggravated as well. A few prominent DDO members such as askbob (1, 2; feigning as PoeJoe and s0m31john) and the decidedly non-prominent usafkid1121 (3) have fled to xtranormal to create antiestablishment-ish videos. However, others, such as Pervrat (4) have used xtranormal to applaud DDO.

In this reporter’s opinion, this relatively new user’s enthusiasm — even despite the rut DDO appears to be in — exemplifies the great being of DDO.

Tags: google, PervRat, search engine, xtranormal — written by PoeJoe @ 12:50 am

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In the history of Debate.org, there have been many archetypes, from Religious preachers (Godsands) to Aging comedians (Egggleston) to Die-Hard Libertarians (Ragnar_Rahl). However, a new one has risen, one that may shock some to the core. The archetype being, whore. You heard me correct, Ladies and Gentlemen, DDO may have a Slut amongst us. The suspect at hand is Urania, who joined DDO 3 months ago.

The situation was brought to the attention of this reporter when she commented on him as being “hot”. After he posted it as a quote in his signature, CrackofDawn gave a brief history of her online Courtiers:

• CrackofDawn
• danny
• Wii master nin
• usafkid
• Panda!

It was then revealed Urania had Married WiiMaster Nin, then dated usafkid. Of course, it would be running before walking if we were to immediately presume Urania to be a whore. Her response on the matter was:

“Well, is it my fault i like nerds? Gosh! :)”

And that “he (CrackofDawn) is a d***”

She also mentioned giving him a B****slap if she ever saw him in public.

CrackofDawn gave a brief History of his relationship with Urania:

Well, it started out when she posted a thread on forums asking for debate help. I gave her a few pointers and then we became friends. Then on every time I went on she would always be sending messages to me, we became friends on facebook, and started talking a lot. One day she called my boyfriend, and because I didn’t want to hurt her feelings, I didn’t say anything about it. I thought she would just get tired of me and go away on her own, but…she didn’t. After about a month of this I just stopped talking to her. A week after I started giving her the cold shoulder she asked me if I liked her anymore. I said no, she seemed pretty beat up about it, but after a week she started “going out” with Danny (a guy at my school known for being kind of a man-whore). After that I haven’t really talked with her.

The Danny mentioned does not have a Debate.org account. He met Urania via Facebook. It is clear her courting goes to multiple websites.

It is unclear if this is the end of Urania’s courtship with online debaters, or if she will pursue any endeavors with I-am-a-panda. This reporter sincerely hopes no viruses have been spread through these relationships, and that any broken hearts have been mended.

Tags: drama, love, Urania — written by PoeJoe @ 8:03 pm

Breaking news: Maya9, brittwaller, and askbob, all of whom were respected Debate.org members, were banned.

Maya9 commented, “Just wanted to let you know that I have been banned because the webmaster finds my beliefs offensive and is sick of someone constantly reminding him that we isn’t doing his job. It is truly sad that debate.com has become a place where the behavior of people like GodSands and askbob is more acceptable than my own. I can only say that it is such a place because the webmaster is a lazy hypocrite.”

brittwaller’s response was, “My account was also erased. Phil, if you’re reading this, which must be difficult as your head is up your ass, just know that you had a really good idea with debate.com originally. Somewhere along the way, and I don’t know why, you either lost interest in the site completely or were guilty of sabotage. I should’ve listened to bsergent a long time ago - he kind of foresaw all of this lol. I put a lot of time not only into debating but I also tried to help the site. I had a whole debate about a code of honor for members. I created the idea for the debater’s cookbook. It’s a shame to see this happen. But I can be somewhat happy in the knowledge that our current president’s actions will horrify for the next eight years as much as your behavior has disappointed and angered me.”

askbob had to say, “LOL I was banned but frankly I could care less what Phil thinks. I agree I should have been banned. I’ll admit it. I don’t care though. There was so many idiots entering that site, and so few intellectuals staying… Frankly I think this was what I needed to permanently depart. It was fun knowing a few of you, but frankly the few became more and more stressed as people left.”

askbob’s banning was the only one to receive a rational for his banning. The moderator wrote:

We grew tired of his constant inappropriate comments and profanity. You’re all welcomed here, just keep it clean and free of inappropriate content.

Debate Fans has contacted the moderator, but hasn’t since received a response.

Tags: askbob, ban, brittwaller, Maya9 — written by PoeJoe @ 10:46 pm

The two have always had their differences. Maya9 is a 20-year-old libertarian satanist, while GodSands is a 19-year-old flamboyant Christian. Seriously, I mean it when I write “flamboyant Christian.” Every single debate of GodSands’ 20 deals with either God, religion, or evolution . . . well, that’s before GodSands’ newest debate, “Is this site not a debating site? Maya and me will share our knowledge on world and universal views,” in which GodSands challenges Maya to explain her beliefs.

The feud between the two started in the comment sections of debates. Maya9 would claim that GodSands used absurd arguments, and Godsands would defend himself. All the fighting would then cultivate in Maya9’s thread, “Getting rid of GodSands.” In it, she wrote, “I’ve stated this countless times before, though no one seems to be listening: people need to stop encouraging GodSands. I am asking every person who reads this to not accept any of his debates and to block him from accepting yours. He is a parasite who is feeding off of your attention. By acknowledging him with debate, you are just validating him. If you care about the dignity of this site at all, please do as I ask. I guarantee it will work. Since the people who are supposed to be running this site clearly don’t care about his soiling of it, it is up to the members to do something about it.” She would later go on to claim that GodSands violated the site’s TOS by (1) uploading copyrighted images for his avatars, (2) personally attacking users on the site, and (3) calling people names. She would also go on to claim that GodSands (4) preached, (5) made very poor arguments, and (6) displayed a poor amount of intellect.

Other opinions have been thrown around as well. Some, such as I-am-a-panda and askbob, suggest that they should go on a date and possibly get married based on the grounds that “opposites attract.” Others, such as PoeJoe, imply that stupidity is not grounds for banning. Still others claim that Maya9 is angry just because GodSands holds vastly different beliefs. s0m31john even created a polldaddy poll in an attempt to get people’s collective opinion.

The Debate.org community shall watch fervently as their feud continues.

Tags: GodSands, Maya9 — written by PoeJoe @ 2:09 pm