According to fgalkin, there is currently four volunteers so far for 'troll actors' (myself included) in regards to the potential idea of orchestrating 'fake debates' as a form of entertainment and education for the board's users.
Said actors would take unfavorable/incorrect positions and argue them to the best of their ability against whomever wishes to take the hero's role.
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In the interest of keeping this idea on the burner, are there any other individuals interested in this?
While we're on the issue, any ideas on what would make good topics to try out for this activity? How about suggestions on limitations for the actors; for example, how racist/intolerant and derogatory could a pleb be as the volunteer victim, since everyone would know that their position is an outright fake one?
One of my first suggestions would be that any volunteer actors for the positions shouldn't be just playing the part of a clueless idiot. Effort should extend beyond mere gibberish and bad spelling skills (assuming this would be acceptable for said actor). The main goal should be to actually try to argue the position as much as possible; make the logical fallacies as difficult as possible to point out and genuinely try to challenge the logical position and at least make some work out of the arguement.
I think an ideal situation is if actors could introduce arguements and angles that aren't just recycling of old garbage arguements. Perhaps a tall order, but certainly worth a try at any rate.
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