Essembly.com is better than Elephant-Donkey.com
Antioxidant Overdose said 04/25, 09:51 PM
Both are politically motivated websites. Essembly.com is a free, non-partisan social networking site that provides tools for politically interested individuals to connect with one another and engage in constructive discussion.
The layout is much more user friendly. Users vote on resolves (similar to a challenge) and users have the option to leave a comment or not. If a user leaves a comment and someone wants to debate your views then they are able to and the user gets a notification and the debate can go on and on. Here, there is no notifications that someone is directing comments at you. You have to keep going back to old Challenges to see if anyone is debating what you've said in a comment. It's frustrating.
You have allies, nemeses and friends and you can use any avatar you want. Elephant-Donkey.com limits users to only a few.
Hadrian said 04/27, 11:18 AM
All you "web 2.0" people and your "social networking this" and "social networking that". It's preposterous to think that a political activist like Joe Green (now associated with Facebook) could provide us with anything better than Elephant-Donkey, a poorly thought-out broken-down political debate web-site with big media corporate sponsorship and absolutely no customer support.
I know your type. A disgruntled female unhappy that she can't be anyone here other than Clinton or cun...cun...cuntCoulter. How about Lady Liberty? Whats wrong with her?
"allies, nemeses and friends", oh my! You Essembly people need to stay off of this site or at least not spread your "grass is greener on the other side" propaganda about Essembly.com.
We may hate it here, but here we plan to stay.
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That's cool. You should check it out though. It's more user friendly. For example, I would've had notification that someone left a comment so I could come back.
Antioxidant Overdose | 04/25/08
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Yeah, there are definitely 10-20 things I'd fix about this site. Apparently these complaints are nothing new. Iamfry said it best: E-D is the land that Time forgot. So is there a comparable debate format on that site and I just missed it? I'll look more carefully tonight. Thanks for the heads up.
DonkeyDude | 04/25/08
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Most people here don't know how to debate. And too many debates are abandoned. Essembly is more like taking a poll but the discussions are fascinating --and threaded! Most of my stuff here is recycled from Essembly, although I'm now concurrently posting new stuff on both sites. All the points AO makes are good ones. However, here it's an interesting exercise to have to mount an extended defense of a position against a challenger -- especially with the nature of the debates I invite.
Hadrian | 04/27/08
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i prefer the debate structure, i wasn't able to find anything i found to be that interesting on the other site. Kudos to Hadrian for finding the inspiration for his topics there, i wondered how he didn't just run out of hilarious things to say.
MorgMcA | 04/27/08
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MorgMcA: I said "recycled", not stolen. I take some of the best of MY resolves written for essembly.com and post them here for debate. Then I have the challenge of defending these bold assertions and bald lies (in the service of a greater truth) in a debate. Its been interesting and frankly amazing that I've managed to "win" any of these "debates". But the format here has required me to do some more digging into the issues involved and to try to entend the original point with some new creative writing. I'll never run out of hilarious things to say as long as the world is the way it is and we still can imagine how it could be better.
Hadrian | 04/27/08
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My mistake, honestly i usually vote for you. if for no other reason than it's entertaining and to encourage it to continue, my hat is off to the funny man.
MorgMcA | 04/27/08
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DonkeyDude proposes that we don't vote before the 6 arguments have been heard. I support him and would like everyone to join us. This will make sure that people complete their debates and not avoid finishing their debates when they are trailing in votes.
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Just wanted to put in my two cents, then will decline the faceoff. I checked the essembly.com site out, and it doesn't seem to be as much about debate as it is about seeing what percentage of people agree with certain propositions. It's like a big poll - at least from the 30 seconds I spent there after I registered an account. I prefer this site, because I enjoy the debate aspect.
DonkeyDude | 04/25/08
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