Thread:Proxima Centauri/@comment-751688-20130216135004/@comment-751688-20130217071929

I'm not annoyed by "those conservative kids and childlike adults"; that's completely fine. I'm annoyed by the limitations imposed by the wiki feature.

Now, maybe you are right that the comment page format makes it easier to comment on articles, but there is a difference between a comment ("I don't see the quote #37 on Conservapedia anymore, maybe you should remove it?"), which is usually followed by a single answer ("Fine. Removed.") or ("It's still there, look at the bit that says '...'.") and a starting debate ("If you ignore a whole lot of invented contradictions(link) that real scientists can easily explain, then you may be true. I'll keep believing my old book of fiction."), which usually goes into a long thread of logic, quote mines, rebuttals, criticisms and ad hominem attacks. For the latter, the old format is better.

A more, ahem, conservative option could be to provide a special namespace for debate articles (in fact, we had one, but it only has two old articles) which would provide a better place for non-page-specific discussion.

I tried to make an index for the debate articles, which, as of now, we need a lot more of.