You think Cats vs Dogs wouldn't be very heated? Ha. Clearly you've never seen Muse... But I don't think it would ever get to the point here where the admins would have to replace all mentions of cats or dogs with hot-pink bunny pictures to avoid arguments.

Anyway, I definitely agree. No-one's posting enough here! And a debate would be fun. I agree that we shouldn't choose a subject that's likely to offend people... Favorite books probably won't work, because none of us can choose, and HP vs PJ would be a mass agreement, not a debate, unless you discover that you still like PJ more, in which case it would be rather unfair, as it would be many against one... But I can't really think of anything else. Unfortunately, I'm horrible at choosing topics, for just about anything...

Aetc likes the idea, too! He says bmui, which means mui buen.

How about something more serious than books and cats vs. dogs? Like how wild animals that kill livestock should be dealt with, or how Mustang horses are chased by helicopters for miles in the sun without resting, or something like that.

Ha.  Welllll.  You clearly weren't on the CB during our huge debate phase.  We had debates about pretty much everything you listed (the big ones were the religion, evolution, and global warming debates).  Eventually the Admin made us stop.  Oh my, I love the old Chatterbox... <3 

*GASPS* R~D~, my dear, you need to read Harry Potter!!  NOW!  I read them this summer (they're super easy to read), so that I could watch all the movies before the next one comes out in November.  You at least need to finish the series before the last movie comes out in July!  Because by the time you finish the series, you'll be a crazy HP fan (don't try to say you won't; you will), and you'll be very disappointed if you miss the last chance to see one in the theaters.  Look up Feltbeats on YouTube, ok?  That way you'll always side with Slytherin when you do read them. :) 

Oh.  What were we talking about?  Debates...  Twilight vs. HP is always fun. :) 

This is a GREAT idea because Chatterbox does seem to be slowing down. I agree, not something too heated like religion (because some of the older posters might remember the last thread on religion) but not something dinky like, um, toothpick vs. dental floss.

---The Runner

I like Cara's idea. 

R~D~: Don't worry, I didn't gasp. I haven't read HP either because of my parents. (But we're watching the first movie tonight, after which, I will get my dad's judgement on whether I can read it or not. To him, books are more influential than movies.)

Oh, I went digging up on old threads, so I found some things that you should avoid debating over:

Jonas Brothers

Twilight

Religion

Global Warming

Peace y'all.

Oh! Just got an idea. Screnzy vs. NaNoWriMo (which is coming up soon!!!!!!) Actually, never mind. I think most people would side on NaNo. :-P 

Your post just gave me some debate ideas for Chatterbox:

books vs. movies

poetry vs. stories vs. nonficition (either which you prefer to read and why or which you prefer to write)

 instrumental vs. vocal music (making it or listening to it)

Admin

I have an idea now: Why not use all of these suggestions? Not at once, of course; that would just make it one of those fads everyone ends up complaining about, like Warriors RPs and quizzes and everything else--but in the order from when they were first suggested. We could do PJ versus HP first, then how livestock-killing wild animals should be dealt with, and so on, and so on, until we've done everything that's been suggested so far, and then someone else will get an idea, and then we can do that.

Since no-one seems to ever end up winning our debates (They typically end in one of the following ways: 1) It gets too heated, so everyone has to stop (let's try to prevent this one), 2) Everyone just gives up because they can tell no-one's being convinced, 3) a combination of 1 and 2, 4) Everyone just stops posting for no apparent reason.), and often there is no clear ending, the only problem would be that we'd probably only ever end up doing one or two debates. I think we should set deadlines for them, and they should short, to force us to move more quickly. Then, if we end up with things we want to say after they've passed, we can set a new deadline and wait until that's over. Deadlines would be able to be reset as many times as we like, so they wouldn't limit us; they'd just make us go somewhat faster and prevent us from just stopping, or possibly never starting (if we don't decide on which topic to use soon, I mean).

Of course, no one has to use this idea. We could do something entirely different. This is just what I thought of, and what I think would probably work; we can do something else if that's what everyone wants.

Sounds like a good idea to me, Ima. Let the PJ vs HP begin!

Admin

Yay! I liked the old debates, and books are fun to debate over. I'm going to vote for Harry Potter over Percy Jackson. I liked the writing more, the books were longer, and the plot was more complicated. How about everyone else?