I want a debate

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

I would be willing to moderate if the candidates are okay with that.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Zero In is willing to moderate.

Maybe three co-moderators representing each candidate: Zero In (Cris/HC), Atlasian Picture-Journal (SWE/DF), and Mideast Record-Courier (Griff/Duke).

That sounds like it would be really hard to coordinate - it took Lumine and me almost two weeks to organize the last debate, and we only have eight days before the election. Also, no offense, but Zero In hasn't published any articles yet, and the APJ has so far published only one (about JCL's "affair" with Classic Conservative).

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

I've always found that using an IRC can be infinitely more effective than waiting over the course of days for candidates to post answers. With this model, you can actually get a debate in real-time, and then the moderator would just be tasked with posting a transcript here for everyone afterwards.

Also, in order to not overwhelm the candidates you could have a few debates Worth different themes.

This is an interesting idea. I don't have an IRC account (and frankly don't want one, to be honest), but I'd be fine with someone else moderating.

I do worry that such a format might make it difficult for non-IRC users to hear the candidates positions, though. Perhaps we could have a more traditional debate on the forum over the course of next week plus an additional IRC debate?