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== Community Norms == | == Community Norms == | ||
=== Disclosure === | === Disclosure === | ||
During the past few years, it has become a norm to disclose your cases on | During the past few years, it has become a norm to disclose your cases on [https://opencaselist.com/ openCaselist]. Disclosure entails uploading the case you read during each round after the round has concluded. The affirmative will typically disclose the 1AC, and the negative will typically disclose the 1NC. You should not disclose your frontlines or blocks, as that would put you at a strategic disadvantage; you should only disclose what you read. | ||
Although there is not universal consensus whether disclosure as a community norm is actually good or bad, most debaters have accepted the practice and continue to disclose on the wiki. If you do not disclose, you can expect to have people read [[Disclosure Theory|disclosure theory]] against you. Since many judges themselves are disposed to vote in favor of disclosure theory, many people have concluded that it is more strategic to disclose, even though that means people will have access to your prep after you have read it. | Although there is not universal consensus whether disclosure as a community norm is actually good or bad, most debaters have accepted the practice and continue to disclose on the wiki. If you do not disclose, you can expect to have people read [[Disclosure Theory|disclosure theory]] against you. Since many judges themselves are disposed to vote in favor of disclosure theory, many people have concluded that it is more strategic to disclose, even though that means people will have access to your prep after you have read it. | ||
There are some exceptions to the practice worth noting. Some debaters do not disclose positions or performances that are of a personal nature to them. Other debaters do not disclose because their school forbids them to disclose. Also, novices are generally not expected to disclose. These debaters are still at risk of having disclosure theory ran at them; however, they might receive more sympathy from their opponents and judges. | There are some exceptions to the practice worth noting. Some debaters do not disclose positions or performances that are of a personal nature to them. Other debaters do not disclose because their school forbids them to disclose. Also, novices are generally not expected to disclose. These debaters are still at risk of having disclosure theory ran at them; however, they might receive more sympathy from their opponents and judges. | ||
In addition to disclosure after each round, debaters are typically expected to send the 1AC to their oppoennt 30 minutes before each round to promote more in depth debating. If your 1AC is already open sourced on the wiki (openCaselist), then you can simply indicate that in an email. You are not expected to proactively email your 1AC out, but 99% of the time the neg debater will email you or contact you for it. | |||
=== Evidence and Evidence Ethics === | === Evidence and Evidence Ethics === | ||
Because most circuit LD rounds require a lot of evidence, it is important to make sure your evidence is accurate and cited properly. There is generally a norm in the community for what constitutes a piece of evidence that is cited "correctly." When citing evidence, debaters usually have a short summary of the evidence called the "tag" (which they write themselves); the source; and finally the card (which is the name for the body of evidence), which is highlighted and underlined in certain places in order to emphasize its important parts. | Because most circuit LD rounds require a lot of evidence, it is important to make sure your evidence is accurate and cited properly. There is generally a norm in the community for what constitutes a piece of evidence that is cited "correctly." When citing evidence, debaters usually have a short summary of the evidence called the "tag" (which they write themselves); the source; and finally the card (which is the name for the body of evidence), which is highlighted and underlined in certain places in order to emphasize its important parts. | ||