Five-Round Debates Are Inferior To Three-Round Debates

Thank you for the opportunity to debate. I don't think we will need to resort to semantics. ---- Contention 1: For the Reader ---- (1) Reading a possible eight thousand (not 80,000) characters for a debate is not absurd. Most debaters in debate.org are literate in English and can read more than 8000 characters. There is a place for extensive discussion, but discussion in the comments section don't count. People mainly read the contents of the debate only on deciding who to vote for. The sacrifice of readability is far too great? Consider these three situations: Situation one: Each word has 3 characters. Each sentence has five words. Each paragraph has 4 sentences. So each paragraph has 60 characters and there would need to be about 133 paragraphs to contain 8000 characters. Situation two: Each word has 5 characters. Each sentence has 7 words. Each paragraph has 7 sentences. Then each paragraph contains 245 characters and there would 32 paragraphs to contain 8000 characters. Situation three: Each word has 6 characters. Each sentence has 10 words. Each paragraph has 8 sentences. Then each paragraph contains 480 characters and there be 16 paragraphs to contain 8000 characters. This is one of my own debates:http://www.debate.org... In the first two rounds, I almost filled 8000 characters in my first two rounds. Would you say that the sacrifice of readability is far too great just to read my debate? (2) Five-round debates do not encourage vote bombing. Five rounds allow more refutation and rebuttals from either side than just 3 rounds. The majority of vote bombers came from joshandr30 and his CWO. I assume that you already know this from the forums: http://www.debate.org... "Josh is vote bombing our members as we speak. The issue is resolved because we decided that we don't care about our win ratios and instead, want to dedicate ourselves to voting/commenting on other debates and helping new debaters grow." Vote bombing is a plague on debate.org because of Josh, not because of five-round debates. (3) Five-round debates may only have a slighter better chance of losing the readers. I present you my debate: http://www.debate.org... I wouldn't think that just because the majority of my rounds have almost 8000 characters that you could be lost. If you read my rounds, you would understand more than you would be confused unless you're illiterate. ---- Contention 2: For the Debater ---- (1) Some people need 8000 characters to successfully evaluate an issue. For the debaters, it will cause head ache for some sensitive people such as PoeJoe. I don't think no one else has a problem reading a 8000 page essay on a topic unless you are bored. http://www.debate.org... This is a great debate which both sides took the character limit to the max. I would assume that most people can understand what both sides are saying even though the debate was very long. (2) Eight thousand characters isn't a big sacrifice if you can refute your opponent's contentions in abundance ways. You're not required to type eight thousand characters and you can type as much as you want at least if it doesn't go beyond 8000 characters. Therefore, eight thousand characters aren't a big sacrifice if the other side chose to make an informal argument of only 100 characters. (3) Assuming that debaters are literate and that they are or had an education, they are less likely to be confused. http://www.debate.org... In this debate, you can see that arguments are broken down into contentions. Due to the organization of the debate, you can understand the arguments much more better than if the words were all bunched up together. The outline of a lot of debates is: 1. Introduction 2. Contention 1 3. Contention 2 4. Contention 3 5. Conclusion This organization can be opposed to http://www.debate.org.... In this debate, the organization has no defined introduction, body, or conclusion. Even though debates with informal organizations have less words and characters, debates with formal organization ultimately have better arguments and are much more understandable. An example where a formal argument is better than an informal argument would be found in http://www.debate.org.... ---- Contention 3: For the Webmaster ---- (1) Five-Round debates wastes the webmaster's server space. That is not a huge problem, because debate.org is advertised to have unlimited debating. 8000 characters is 8 kilobytes. So a typical 5-round debate contains about 45 kilobytes. You need about 1000 debates just to have 45 megabytes of sever space. Therefore, we won't lose sever space anytime soon. Even if we were, the moderators would notifies us to limit our debate size. ---- Conclusion ---- Five-round debates have been proven to be equal or even better to three-round debates. *I just used 2,670 characters. I hope PoeJoe wouldn't think that the the sacrifice of readability is far too great to be able to read my debate.