...or do the trolls eliminate any chance?

Not being seen as understanding or learning anothers position on a certain subject.  

This is a fuck board...not square off...or the high school debate team.

The boards were most fun when they were moderated by LP and GaG, when they were much more crazier than they are right now.. After dipping to their lowest of the lows last Feb, current state of the boards is not all that bad...

I basically agree.  But it's nowhere near as good as when those two were the mods.  They controlled the worst of the trolls and idiots and maintained a kind of rational anarchy here.  In general, even the train wrecks were more intelligent then and there was more useful information because there were more experienced posters.  Many have left.
As for civil rules of debate ever being followed here, don't hold your breath.

I get it's a fuck board.  My point is it is possible to engage in lively debate without resorting to name calling and other stupidity.

Fair enough.  I wasn't really expecting it to change based on my comment anyway.  I do find some of it amusing I suppose.

when other people don't believe their BS.

I wish some of those old guys would come back though. From time to time, they peep, only to recede back into hibernation.

That's not the point.  Debate requires disagreement by definition.  The point...and this compliments part of what you are saying....you can disagree with someone without calling them an idiot or whatever.  The disagreement is often not the reason for offense...rather, the poor treatment is what inspires ire.  I concede that is not always the case.  To your point, Some people can't bear the thought that they aren't right.  

I'll have to read it over and over again.

It's not. It's a debate board about a fuck board.

The best we can hope for is that the trolls are held to a high standard and are at the very least amusing...  

As Shakespeare well understood:

Kissess  
I wil try write better english  I promise  
 but .. read here  
 A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Truman Capote  

It really isn't that amusing.

They are not hibernating.

To me, it's also how this board polices itself.  When you have trolls and idiots around like Udolt, RidgeSchmucky, The Dung Beetle and FIDIOT, they need to be dealt with.  There seems to be a group of like-minded people here who agree.
Others are free to disagree, of course.

Perhaps TER should add Aristotle’s “On Sophistical Refutations” to the self-help center.

Touché  

Now see...that was not very nice.

We all have two ears and one mouth…

Its true that a small handful of men choose the "mob rules" approach to achieving their dose of bullying for each day. I have only noticed 1 female who enjoys that m/o. They're just suffering from arrested development. You will notice that they rarely answer the OP question and just to their insecure insults. My advice is too use the board to shop only and maybe admin will put their foot down. Yeah Right haha!

We get on his case all the time because he's an ass clown. But it doesn't stop him from posting his inane drivel.

Because he's a fairly creative troll.  I just hate it when he disappoints me.

or really has masochistic tendencies..

So will moose and squirrel.

if I went to your country and tried to write on a message board.

Very difficult to talk about Fallacies here on TER when the focus is on the phallus

In TER world, a “fallacious position” is how we situate ourselves for a blow job.

I was thinking about you as about decent woman. I even sent you two pm s whatever my mistake again as we say - learn as long as you do live and you here call it lifetime learning
So I think I now did learn more about  you Dev again let s gentlemen and ladies to decide if your comment was provoked by nessasity or just by mean nature

Skarp is taking English classes from Serafima....very secretly... [e]

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I do that when I'm done with a trivial debate want someone to just STFU lol

Hell, if I could fake a foreign accent is be rich! Lol