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Add to FavoritesThis article proves to be a thinking question. There are many objective way to look at this type of question. I feel both should be able to rate the articles. On one side, if you agree with the articles it would make it easier to rate, but yet may leave the traces of rating on a bias level, which may or may not be intentional. At least you would be able to read through the articles which may lead to a more clearified decision of how to raet and why they chose to rate it the way they had done. One the other side, to disagree with the articles may leave you rating becuase you disagree. Most of the time we try to block our own bias opinions and do the best we feel we can on an objective plain. I feel to really accurately know the potential of the article or the writer, is to pair that piece with both types of people who agree and disagree. You will then see both sides of the spectrum of people. You will than be seeing how the people reading it think leading to a better piece in the future on that topic. To know both sides and how people think or react to a certain topic will open doors for more people concerns on that topic. And if you are a person who disagrees or if you are a person who agrees, this written piece may broaden their horizons of that topic. If one has a written piece that is on a topic I disagree with, yet has put forth great efforts in making a good point, than that is what they have, a great piece. I may still keep my own opinion and disagree, yet my out look on what was written may be different, or I may think since they have written a point that I may not have thought of before than I may be willing to change my mind and agree with them. Either way your horizons will be broadened. so in this article I feel to have a better rating you need to have both types of people rating. But to pick one side, I feel that person rating that article need to agree with the topic, so they will have to be rating objectively and not bias. I try very hard to be objective with every thing I read that needs a clear cut decision to find its potential to be objective. Yet as me being solely human, find it be objective with everything I read here is difficult. Still I do it and than get on to the rest of the articles. Agreeing with the articles, or its topic, will give the rater more of interest in what is written, to be able to read through all the articles put to them. Many find it hard not to skip the articles and still have skips left to use. Being objective is not an easy task yet can be done. Still in most cases I feel to have good ratings on a written piece you need to have both types of people rating, but I feel agreeing with a piece makes for a better determination on have an objective opinion for rating it.
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I'd rather have somebody who disagreed with my or anybody else's debate article in rating them than somebody who just necessarily agreed. Somebody who always agreed with your point of view may rate your article higher than a disagreeing side more just out of belief structure, other than the important things like quality, spelling and grammar. In other words, I need somebody who'll rate it on merit, not whether they like my politics or not. Somebody who may disagree with my written stance, therefore won't alter the tally of agreeing or disagreeing articles by a conflicting opinion, for they all are conflicting opinions to the person rating them.
As writers...and therefore communicators, we need objective ratings for our work, even if it is somebody who doesn't support our point of view on debates or whatever we write. True objectivity is hard to find. Nobody just wants an enthusiastic 'yes' rating to the Helium debates and beyond...a rubber stamp, so to speak. Writers need an objective opinion of our work, whether it is a Helium debate rating, or beyond. Somebody who disagrees with our debate usually will be more professional in their ratings because they'll study every aspect of the article more. They won't just scan it, grit their teeth and give it a rating. They'll rate it against the others better and more objectively than a trumpeteer to the 'agree' or 'disagree' side-wherever we are putting our professional mark to. A trumpeteer will usually be less inclined to properly rate them, usually getting their votes out of synch because they are looking at them far less objectively.
Writers learn their craft and grow more by objective opinions, irregardless of our sides. Not to say that people who agree or disagree should not be considered a true part of the rating process at Helium debates. The rating process can't work properly without a symbiotic balance between them. But somebody with a more disagreeable view of an article is more likely to look at the articles far more closely, dissecting every phrase, every word, every nuance of it. Therefore, their views will be far more balanced, in the rating of debate articles...and beyond. Debating on another site, I was able to look at the posts more objectively than somebody who was impassioned by the subject. It didn't mean that I ran around debunking them, just that I was not swept up by the emotionalism of the cause. I went by the data points of the debate, nothing else.
This is how writers learn, by an objective opinion, not a banner-waver of our work. Helium debates can be part of a learning curve for writers, amateurs or professionals. Like any other writing, it demands proper vetting and dissection. Never to say that somebody who agrees is totally less able to give a fair rating. But somebody who disagrees with the debate subject will see far more than the pro side. The two sides balance and compliment each other, leading to a fair rating. But the strength of the rating lies with the ones who disagree more. Additionally, since all of the articles are something they can disagree with, it can't lead to any favoritism by more mixed opinions on the subject matter, offering more objectivity in the rating system...and a fairer break for us all in our learning curve as writers.
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