This is one of my favourite arguments in the whole of CreateDebate, I am aware that it wasn't written this year and will happily have it discarded from the final results.
The guy who posted this only appeared once or twice and the argument itself is copy and pasted from another blog. However, it was one of my first glimpses of what nationalism can do to someone and the sheer, blind stupidity of the argument is what makes it humourous.
Link (The argument will be to the right by a user named 'wedispute')
My favourite quote from it: "The U.S. was never taken over by anybody. Ever. Remember World War II? Of course you don’t, you weren’t alive. Well I have the internet and I looked it up. Germany successfully invaded England and occupied London..."
Did anyone remember ChristJesus? He spammed the entire home page with his "fghjkl" debates to get himself over 100 points (=over 100 debates). Then Andy found out and reduced his points to -1.
That's what you get for abusing the system.
I really like the England vs USA one, as it had a lot of people involved on it and a wide range of arguments where some people used humour to get their point across and others used events in history. The only problem with it was that it was slightly ruined by subjective upvoters/downvoters.
But seriously, I swear all of the following are Joe's sock puppet accounts:
http://www.createdebate.com/user/
On many sites I've been on the moderators have always been hidden and observing, justice was presented in the form that if a moderator didn't like you, you probably got banned. It's nice to know that on this website we can communicate with a moderator so freely and be able to spread our our own opinions about how punishments and rewards should be distributed.
One thing that has surprised me is that Andy the moderator frequently takes part in debating and arguing, giving the impression that he is in fact equal to the rest of us. Unlike administrators and moderators from other websites he doesn't constantly threaten people with possible banishment.