Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26221704-20160822185129/@comment-28501958-20160822191218

Most of these sound decent, but I have a couple complaints. I don't really want to defines things like 'Show X sucks/is garbage/is shit' as slander; they're not false, they're opinions, and they're not even personal attacks.

I'd also like to take a moment to address 'wanked' as it applies to VS Debates. As I understand it, to 'wank' a character is to come up with a theory about them (generally their abilities and limits or lack thereof), and then to assert that theory as canon and use it as a basis for their analysis and result. TvTropes has page on this. Obviously, this can be a problem for anyone who values accurate or probable results to a DB in regards to canon, as wanking a character can make them dramatically more powerful within the DB and give them a victory they otherwise wouldn't earn. While wank's connotations can be crude or vulgar, wanking is a problem, and we need a term to use when we need to point that problem out. Of course if anyone has an idea for a less vulgur term to replace 'wank', I'm all in favor of that.