Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.19.0827 +0100]: paragraphs cut off because of the limits of the medium. (Pasting from #-replies irc logs or from a live client? Per-candidate logfiles of #-replies? Use of a text editor for collection / reformatting? Etc.) I used the

Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-18 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Helen Faulkner] Having just run the 2005 DPL IRC debate (and a stressful experience it was too), Martin Krafft and I would like to get feedback on what people thought of the debate and how it was run. Thank you, Helen and Martin, for a job well done. I think the most useful thing would be a

Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-17 Thread Anthony Towns
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.16.1344 +0100]: I found the first hour basically wasted time - the strength of IRC is that it's real-time, while the form of the first hour of debate did not really use that, The goal of the first hour was to make sure

Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I really liked the format of the debate, and I think that despite the popularity of the second hour's free wheeling debate, the structured first hour,along with carefully chosen questiosn, gives a better idea of the candidates policies, and responses to unusual scenarios. The

IRC debate feedback

2005-03-16 Thread Helen Faulkner
Hi All, Having just run the 2005 DPL IRC debate (and a stressful experience it was too), Martin Krafft and I would like to get feedback on what people thought of the debate and how it was run. Suggestions for future debates will be very welcome, not that I am planning to volunteer to do that again

Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-16 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Helen, Martin - thanks for your effort. I found the first hour basically wasted time - the strength of IRC is that it's real-time, while the form of the first hour of debate did not really use that, instead showing the weaknesses of IRC when text needs to be copied pasted around :-) The

Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:44:45PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: I found the first hour basically wasted time - the strength of IRC is that it's real-time, while the form of the first hour of debate did not really use that, instead showing the weaknesses of IRC when text needs to be

Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:44:45PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: I found the first hour basically wasted time - the strength of IRC is that it's real-time, while the form of the first hour of debate did not really use that, instead showing the

Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-16 Thread Helen Faulkner
Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:44:45PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: [...] I haven't looked at any earlier IRC DPL candidate debates, so I can't compare if this was better or worse. Earler debates may have been easier due to the lower number of participants. I strongly suspect

Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 02:28:25PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: I also liked the second part better. I could imagine a compromise in the middle of both schemes, for something to replace the first part; I don't know whether this is technically manageable, though. My suggestion is that only one