The poll in the other Entry still stands, I suggest leaving a vote or something... please?

But that's not what this entry is for;

Alright, so I was asked to blog about this, but I will not say who asked in case they'd prefer to not be mention (It's not a "they" it's a single person), but I felt like I should anyway.

Now, from what I have seen, BZPers can have logical, well thought out and said debates. Now, flaming and arguing are not debates, and those generate from "debating" about something a member may have said or done; what I'm talking about are universal, or national debate topics.

Look in CoT's debate topic; that thing has yet to burst into flame and has one vague religious mention, of which was pointed out by another member. Now, it is controlled and the people of the debate topic give their reasons and politely, and calmly reply to any objections. They do not go "NO IT IS MY WAY YOU ********" they politely quote, and state what their views are and have an intelligent and logical debate about it. Now, some of it may seem... harsh in a way as you can put a harsh toned voice on anything on the internet for the most part, but people don't take any possible misinterpeted "harshness" as an insult.

But now here's something else, recently there have been AIM debates on topics, the one in particular I won't mention as it does violate "Politics", "Religion" and the fact that it is not a topic for the youngling audience to view for the most part. BUT

even as unstable the topic may have been the members of this debate did the following;

They structured a way for everyone to speak (Really only has to be done over the instant message system as you can get a flood of replies at once and at the same time), they were all polite, kind, and stated their reasons without being bashed to pieces by someone who disagrees. Rather if someone disagreed they'd state their reason, why they disagree, who it is directed at and so on and so forth.

It was rather amazing that things did not get out of hand, and even if those members were all logic thinking (when appliciable) and in my honest opinion "smart-minded members" (Now I am not saying no one else is, in fact there are quite a good number of intelligent people on BZP, I just know some, while most I have yet to meet) and so were able to stay under control and in bounds where there were none.

Now I am not saying "Open up perhaps some more debatable topics" and such, but I am just pointing out that members in my own eyes (Most) are capable of being mature about this. And the only ones I ever see reply to the debate topic are collected, and mature to the point where they don't blow up at someone if disagreed with.

That is all.