NEW DebateGate coming

[Christians4LessGvt]

I like them all....but green eyes are my personal favorite, followed by blue.

[BT]

Rating system gone

[Christians4LessGvt]

Rating system gone

Wow BT you are responding to suggestions and input in lightning speed.
Thanks for listening and all the work.

Is the new platform going to allow you the moderator to easily add/delete images on the frontpage?
I think that could help you drive some traffic.

As issues, campaigns, world events change you could plug in updated images so someone browsing thru
would see that this place is current with issues.....people love pictures.....

Another suggestion....and you may already do this
but somewhere on the front or intro page put
"FREE POLITICAL MESSAGE BOARD" or "FREE SIGNUP"
also if people need an e-mail to join put that their e-mail will be kept private and not shared
People love "FREE" and they love privacy from Spam e-mail

also you know I love the "no notice" of an edit for at least 10 minutes if not up to an hour or two
it allows a poster that was in a hurry and didnt proof read to correct something without notice of doing so
but yet protects the integrity of the post if it needs to be sourced a week, a month, a year later.

[BT]

I'll be posting a road map of the "vision" in a day or two.

[Christians4LessGvt]

I'll be posting a road map of the "vision" in a day or two.

Great....one other tiny suggestion is slightly enlarging the function buttons.
Or at least enlarge the frequently used ones?
I can barely make out the "insert image" icon
I guess it really doesnt matter once you get used to where it is...but still.
To make room for larger buttons maybe some less used could be dropped altogether?
What is a "teletype" button function? or "insert underscored list"? Does anyone ever use them?

[BT]

I'll be posting a road map of the "vision" in a day or two.

Great....one other tiny suggestion is slightly enlarging the function buttons.
Or at least enlarge the frequently used ones?
I can barely make out the "insert image" icon
I guess it really doesnt matter once you get used to where it is...but still.
To make room for larger buttons maybe some less used could be dropped altogether?
What is a "teletype" button function? or "insert underscored list"? Does anyone ever use them?

I'll look into it, but to be honest I'm not sure we are sticking with the forum software we are currently using.

[Christians4LessGvt]

I'll look into it, but to be honest I'm not sure we are sticking with the forum software we are currently using.

BT I know you are looking for input...so I hope you dont mind.
I really like the current software...or the old.
Be careful on major changes....
I was a member on a music board that was changed to "improve" it.
They did a complete "upgrade" & it was disaster and the site never recovered...lots of people left

[BT]

They did a complete "upgrade" & it was disaster and the site never recovered...lots of people left

That's kind of where we are now isn't it. At one time we had close to 50 people posting on a daily basis. We are down to what, six now?

The goal is to have a new site that is completely integrated. The current forum software doesn't do that. So it will boil down to what features we might lose if we go with an integrated solution vs what we gain by integrating.

We are going to have a problem with facebook integration anyway. Because people are known by their real names on there and use handles in this forum. But facebook is the best way to recruit, aqnd if we need anything it is we need new people.

Content is key. I am looking for folks who want to contribute articles about life overseas, travel, tv, book and movie reviews, slice of life stuff like lileks, cooking, health, sports, parenting, business, hobbies you name it, so the front page is always fresh. And those articles will create topics in the forums for discussion. Think Slate or Huffington Post or a small scale Yahoo. I'm even thinking about a consignment store or mini mall. I know a guy who makes as much selling birdhouses as he does from his SS check.

We will have a video channel and a music channel. Heck i'd like to do a user submitted short film festival. In a day or two we will be showing Brass's Oz Lion Film he made a couple years ago.

That's a rough idea where we are going.

[Christians4LessGvt]

true BT....what have we got to lose?
we may lose 2 and gain 200

[Henny]

I'll be posting a road map of the "vision" in a day or two.

Great....one other tiny suggestion is slightly enlarging the function buttons.
Or at least enlarge the frequently used ones?
I can barely make out the "insert image" icon
I guess it really doesnt matter once you get used to where it is...but still.
To make room for larger buttons maybe some less used could be dropped altogether?
What is a "teletype" button function? or "insert underscored list"? Does anyone ever use them?

OK, I guess we are all aging here because I've been having trouble with the buttons, too. (And my cell phone and the on-screen programming guide on the television and...)

Just a reminder of how long we've been on DebateGate and the previous PIC!

[R.R.]

Yes, there are lots of stunning women of Arab descent.

There was some type of protest in Lebanon a couple years ago and a lot of the women were stunning. I think I may have even posted some of the pics in here.

[Henny]

Yes, there are lots of stunning women of Arab descent.

There was some type of protest in Lebanon a couple years ago and a lot of the women were stunning. I think I may have even posted some of the pics in here.

The Lebanese are considered the most beautiful by everyone in the region. In addition, they simply have a level of class that is hard to describe - the way they carry themselves, the way they dress (always perfection).

[BT]

I'll be posting a road map of the "vision" in a day or two.

Great....one other tiny suggestion is slightly enlarging the function buttons.
Or at least enlarge the frequently used ones?
I can barely make out the "insert image" icon
I guess it really doesnt matter once you get used to where it is...but still.
To make room for larger buttons maybe some less used could be dropped altogether?
What is a "teletype" button function? or "insert underscored list"? Does anyone ever use them?

OK, I guess we are all aging here because I've been having trouble with the buttons, too. (And my cell phone and the on-screen programming guide on the television and...)

Just a reminder of how long we've been on DebateGate and the previous PIC!

We registered the name debategate in April 2002, i joined yahoo in 97

[Christians4LessGvt]

I loved the old "Clinton Scandal Room" in yahoo chat.
Even the name was sheer brilliance!
Man was that place popular!
I remember being up at 3AM  on some Saturday nights chatting away
with some legends like Crocat, Sergio, Blondie007, Dr. Luckie, MirstnKim,
Bill1x1, Pox, and a ton of other regulars.

[Plane]

Riteing funny, CPO Pera Reagan is Satan Gannemede Terragazelle


I think honored veterans , of debate gate , Politicly Incorrect Politics , Spin Cycle and the pool ought to recieve an invite.

Especially the ones known for quality and cogence.

Stray Pooch should be invited to write it and set it to music.

BT can compile the E-mail equivelent of an engraved invatation.

Invite the best first and promise them what you can.

What can we promise them?

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