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Originally Posted by CharlieO

Well you certainly act like it.

The thing is in the past I have continued a debate in a PM and the person has kept replying to the messages, but then I get accused of spamming the inbox even though they replied the same amount of times.

Also it has happened that the person goes and posts in a chat thread about the whole debate but veered in their favour so it is biased.
If the debates are for all to see people can make their honest opinions on what has been said and then no one gangs up on others based on the proposed truth by the other party. And of course then the mods do nothing because the other person is liked by you lot and without the debate out there for people to see there isn't enough evidence to back it up. Does that make sense?

It is not to belittle others in front of people. I apologise that you clearly see me as a disgusting person who would want to do that but I honestly do not.

Well the "spamming the inbox" point isn't really a valid one because anyone can just delete any PM's they get

So it seems you kinda want a thread to act as a public battleground, where everyone turns up to watch CharlieO and Salman battle it out in "civil debate"? I don't see it. In fact I'd say that PM is a far better way to iron out your differences than a public thread is, that way you really can just have a one on one discussion over something and avoiding people playing to the gallery, so to speak, and neither side will be trying to get one over on the other person, as far as I see it this idea of yours would turn any kind of civil debate into a public point scoring contest.