One of the things we want most often on our forums is interest. Unfortunately many times a good debate gets interest. What happens even is people will tell their friends I am having this debate on this forum please come over and help me out. This getting more people even in on the debate and your forum! I guess its like any publicity is good there is no such thing as bad publicity. Of course the down side of this is when the debate gets too heated and personal people will go to other forums and some will stay. From past experience though using forums I have seen that they will still mention your forum in their new one and tell others why they left. More free advertising of your forum

. Its just a thought.

I am going to start a new thread on this to see what others think check it out.
