User blog comment:Godlovesusall/Your attention please-Important-Upcoming debate/@comment-1251488-20120228215253/@comment-4196911-20120229002242

It's tricky because then I'm not sure what we'd be doing would qualify as a debate. I mean, if everyone just talks about why they like their ship - well, then that's all it is. Don't we all do that here periodically, anyway? Why you like your ship is just personal taste - you don't even need a reason, and nobody can tell you you're wrong. There's no real back-and-forth (even if it's civil and polite). So if you have representatives from every ship you can think of (seven, eight?) just throwing out their opinion about why they like it, well, that's fine, but there isn't much more to it than that.

What exactly would we discuss? Trying to figure out what Dan is going to do based on what we've seen already is always a topic that gets people interested, but it's a totally separate question from why you think your ship is great and why you ship it.

What would all this be about?

The most usual antagonism has always been between Creddie and Seddie (for obvious reasons), so I think the point of thinking this idea up in the first place was to see if a back-and-forth discussion could be had without having it devolve into nastiness or something the Mods would need to delete. Not sure how much natural antagonism exists with ships other than those two - there doesn't seem to be a problem in the fandom that other ships would need to see addressed by this "debate" idea.

But maybe I'm mis-reading why Godlovesusall wanted to do this in the first place. I'm willing to be educated on it. Honest.