I can leave it to the entire board to decide the winner, if that’s what you mean, but a single, disciplined person must moderate. I have no objection to Carleas if he wants to do it.
We will need a structure too, which I would be happy to leave to whoever the moderator ends up being.
I hear you on Carleas, that’s why I’m not sure he’ll do it. But I was thinking about it and I don’t know who else I would trust. MagsJ is the person with most integrity by far, but I don’t know if she can withdraw herself from a subject and be dispassionate. Obsrvr and promethean are intellectually competent, but I wouldn’t trust them not to inject their own agendas.
I would veto Dan~. I admire his self-discipline in a lot of things, but I don’t consider him impartial or capable of impartiality. In a pinch, I might accept, because of the discipline thing. But probably not.
OK, 5 rounds, I guess that would be…
opening arguments
2 - 4 counters
5 conclusions?
do we have anything like a word limit or other kind of limit? I think a moderator might see some worth setting that we can’t think of right now.
Ok then we will give Carleas… 3 days? and then we go with Wendy?
To choose the winner, I say we have a 3 day voting period after the debate ends, and whoever votes votes. If nobody votes, or there is a tie, Wendy decides.