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such a nice boy
Mar 22, 2002

I'd like to make a debate-style blog, and I'm wondering if I should try to massage wordpress into doing what I want or just custom-coding something from scratch.

The idea is that a poster can challenge another poster to a debate. If it's accepted, those two posters will alternate posts on a single page. They'll be the only ones allowed to make the main posts; however, other people will be able to comment. I'd like for the comments to appear in a sidebar, showing up next to the post that they're referencing.

In the future, I might add a scoring system (where commenters can give +1 or -1 to posters and explain what the points are for).

Would Wordpress be good for this? Any advice on possible ways to implement it?

To simplify things, at first, only two posters (specified by me) will have debating rights, so the "challenge someone to a debate" part doesn't really need to be in the first iteration.

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