Debate.org has some serious problems, ladies and gentlemen.

Listen guys, this is a fact. The webmaster of this webpage obsessively monitors these debates, and pays particular attention to debates that ridicule the webpage, to see what users are saying. If a user criticizes the webmaster, creator, or anyone affiliated with the website for the way it is run and the rediculous practices employed by said people involved with this site, the comment is immediately deleted, and the user's account is deleted. This has happened to countless individuals I have spoken to on chat groups on aol, google, yahoo, and youtube. This isn't a rumor, or a vendetta against anyone; it is an absolute fact. The people who run this site want you to debate certain things, by their rules. If you want to debate something even slightly controversial, outside of their conservative parameters, your account is immediatley deleted. If you bring up religion in a negative light, criticize a group (particularly a conservative group), discuss sex, even in responsible ways, your account is deleted and comments erased. This apparently happens so many times that it cannot be attributed to a few malcontents who are goofing off online. I run multiple discussion groups on the afore-mentioned websites, and this group repeatedly comes up as a source of anger, dissatisfaction, and an example of something that peaked and is now in decline, because word is spreading that the people who run the site are absurd. This comment itself will likely be deleted, if what I hear is true. In fact, I counted how many different people I have heard comments from (two separate discussion groups about the problems associated with debate.org have been started on google and yahoo). As of right now, 22 different account names, and presumably people, have told various stories, most of them quite different, about negative experiences with this website. If you do not play by the conservative ideals & avoid criticizing the people who run this site, even constructively, you get deleted and comments get censured, like a those in a communist nation. I believe there are better debate websites out there; in fact, I know there are. And they have a larger following precisely because there is less censorship and appalling practice of forcing the creator's ideals on the users. and the quality of debate of other sites is not suffering because of the freedom. I doubt this debate will survive the censorship I have been discussing; this discussion dares to question the practices employed by the people who run the website, and the quality of the site as a result of their questionable behavior. Because the webmaster, creator, et. al. want to maintain the illusion of utopia and perfection in the conservative and predictable world they hope to maintain on this page (all in the name of preserving the "quality" of debate, which is a fallacy...see above) people are leaving the site, and it is instead being overrun with middle and high school kids who discuss pop music, trends, and similarly mundane and pointless subjects, intellectualy devoid of any original thought. This is another major complaiont of people in discussion groups elsewhere on the web. I found it interesting enough to stop by here to see what the outcry was about. Thus far, I have found the criticisms consistent with what I have read o nthe website here. I predict a general exodus of users eventually. I find strict censorship repulsive, particularly in today's society and political culture. Disappointing, to say the very least.