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A community on [[LiveJournal]] that occasionally proves to be the breeding grounds for all kinds of incredible [[drama]]. Just [[troll]]ing the debate community slightly can often net tons of [[lulz|laughs]], as many of the users take themselves '''[[Serious_business|very seriously]]'''.
It is almost impossible to get [[banned]] from Debate without directly trying to.

== Let's meet Debate ==
Debate was created by {{lj|user=absolutcalm}} at some point in LiveJournal's mythic history. To all modern knowledge its [[userinfo]] has been handed down from that point like a pair of stone tablets, and is just as archaic and irrelevant to the community as a whole. Other than the [[moderator]]s, who live in eternal fear of Absolutcalm, the rules and guidelines on the userinfo are never cited by anybody that isn't a troll.

The moderators of Debate have changed several times throughout the community's time-span and the community can probably be dated based entirely on the period between a flavor-of-the-month poster being granted moderator powers, and the 'core mods' removing those powers once they realized that the community was improving.

Absolutcalm left the community several years ago and only returns to do one of two things,
*Delete Debate and claim the reason was because people were breaking ToS. When this occurs the community will invariably be undeleted after two days without any breach of ToS being shown to exist, and without anything having actually been deleted from the community.
*Yell at the moderators for not doing a good enough job of enforcing rules he's thought of but hasn't yet told them.
Both events will be accompanied by him complaining that Debate "has gone to shit", or is "overrun with trolls" - despite this being the natural state of Debate for as long as anybody can remember.

== Debate Clones==
The primal nature of Debate, a pool of slime with no purpose, has proven to be a prime evolutionary ground for inane spin-offs. There are two categories of Debate spin-offs: the ones that the members create in order to fulfill a function they perceive as missing, and the ones that are created by people Debate members [[Flame war|flamed]] out of the community - almost without exception during Debate Rape. Normally, this new community will immediately be overwhelmed with debate members and destroyed. (i.e. [http://www.livejournal.com/community/worthydebate/ worthydebate]).
#Debate Functionaries
#*Debate_mods - co-ordinates moderation, and serves as an ideal place for Absolutcalm to discuss things with the moderators that he never uses for such.
#*Debate_classics - provides easy access to all the great debates that are now unreadable due to [[brainlesswonder]] getting his accounts suspended every two weeks.
#*Debate_folks - allows Debate members to talk about each other without making [[ad hominem]]s.
#*Debate_arena - allows Debate members to satiate their gigantic egos through pretending to be gladiators.
#*Vs_and_tap_it - allows Debate members to talk about which unachievable [[woman]] they like the best.
#*Debate_laws2 - allows Debate members to chronicle the various laws of the [[internets]]
#Failed Debate Spin-offs (think Trapper John, M.D.)
#*debate_furries
#*retard_debate
#*debate2
#*debate_awards
#*debate_drunks
#*debate_irc
#Inferior Debate Clones
#*Thought_club - created by [[Iworshipsatin]], constant source of [[lulz]] for real Debate members.
#*Worthydebate - created by [http://livejournal.com/~sweetbums sweetbums], nothing special.
#*Elitedebate
#*Top_debater - created by [[feminist|vriane]], current residence of disconscious where she posts about [[Nazi]] [[Israel]] and the successful run of [[liberal|communism]] in the USSR.
#*Beniceorshutup

== Debate Rape ==
The phenomenon that happens whenever the words "I am new" occur in a post. Debate Rape will lead to the entire post being ignored in favor of personal insults, talking about bullshit, and generally any behavior that results in the poster receiving emailed responses but doesn't directly address the debate.

During Debate Rape bets will be placed, based on the original poster's responses, as to what name the Debate clone will take.

== [[Jumped the shark]] ==
Members of Debate have been discussing when, exactly, it jumped the shark for well over two years now. The answer is a paradox because despite continuous arguments that it is "now a shithole", the only posts offered in support of a Golden Age of Debate have four replies to them that all consist of "I agree" in varying levels of verbosity.

The first law of Debate is that any time the members of it agree on a specific moment when the shark was jumped, Debate will improve for a month and everybody will forget about the conversation. The second is that as time passes, the probability that that single month will be named as a period before the shark was jumped approaches 1.

The incidence of shark-jumping debates has deceased to 0 ever since Debate 'mascot' {{lj|user=mr_flagg}} was banned from the community after he, himself, jumped the shark by hi-jacking the entire community - after the moderators gave him mod powers as part of an [[April Fools]] joke - because he felt that nobody was taking him seriously.

As of July 26, 2005 Debate has officially lost any semblance of [[funny]]. Moderated posts, membership, and frequently screened comments have killed the [[lulz]].

== Continental Drift ==

During the hi-jacking of 2004 the remainder of the vanguards of Debate leaked into political communities - desperate for their fix of stupid comments and the belittling of others. Most of them have not returned to Debate.

It is now believed that the [[communities|LJ Community]] [[liberal]] is the new Debate.

== Debate Memes ==
*[[Mark Twain]]
*[[Fuck you, I'm a dragon!]]

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