Hmicciche's Waterfall
When you are viewing a debate, you'll notice there is a star next to the debate title. Here is how the star works:
If the debate only belongs to a single community then the star will be empty. If the debate belongs to multiple communities then the star will be solid.
To view a list communities that have claimed the debate, hover your mouse over the star. You can use the hover box to flip between the various communities.
To add a debate to the Essembly Alumni communities, the administrators can click on the star, select this community and click submit! They can use the debate star to fill this community with interesting debates to engage our members.
Sounds interesting and useful. Let's give it a try and see if we like it.
Non-admin folks: See if you can add a debate here like this also.
We will consider you an alien, as you are not an Essembly Alumni. However, just like Essembly was open to all, this debate community is public, and currently welcoming of everyone.
While anyone can join, there is a shared history here among the alumni, and some shared traditions.
For example, if you don't behave, you will be flagged!
Also Topic Wars. We might translate here as tag wars.
At this point, there are just 3 verified Alumni here. Most are hanging out on FaceBook in the Essembly 2.0 group. We shall see if any are persuaded to also become involved here.
I think viewing members of Essemby Alumni is limited to the community administrators. (At present Volker and I).
If people don't simply lurk here, you will see our members when they post a debate or an argument to one. I'll be looking into a way to make the membership transparent to all of us.
Essembly Refugees is an off-the-cuff name. It can be changed. What do you think the name of this debate community should be called? Essembly Alumni? Hey! That sounds kind of classy.
If you have an idea for a name, create a "tag" for your argument as a way of voting for your selection.
By the way. Have you noticed the potential of tags here? Remember topic wars? TAG WARS!
Just for the heck of it, I'm going to take the contrary position and pose the question, "Who was eligible to be a part of Essembly before it died?"
The answer? Anyone.
The issue then is are we going to fix a point in time and say membership in the "Essembly Refugee" debate community will be limited to people who were members of Essembly at some point? Or are we here going to accept anyone as a member as they could have been when Essembly was still around.
Lets save the Essembly Refugee Admins the trouble of having to police this debate community's membership roles and banning people simply because they were never a part of Essembly in the past. It's not like random people are going to be clambering to join us here, and if new (or even old folks for that matter) become troublesome, the
Admins can always ban them then.
Let's make this an open community!
Just for the heck of it, I'm going to take the obvious position and say that this debate community should be limited to people who were involved in Essembly.
CreateDebate allows you to form what they call a "Debate Community" for free. There is a cost to make it private. However, Administrators can see who is a member and can ban them. So, if we get enough Essembly people voting on this debate and making this choice, it would be up to any Administrators we select to do that job of policing the membership roles.
There is always the option for any and everyone to participate in debates in the wider CreateDebate community. But should we allow anyone and everyone in on this group? This is a "no" vote.
Hi Tom.
Along with you, Volker and I are members of the essemby "Debate Community" here on Create Debate. All of our activity is taking place on the main site however. I'm still getting to know how to use this site, so I'm uncertain how this little corner of it (this essembly debate community) works.
Can you see an option to view the members of this community?
