General Information

As of February 8, 2024

Subreddit Name

r/Debate

Title

Debate

Language

en

Public Description

/r/Debate is a subreddit dedicated to discussing formal styles of speech debate as practiced in high school and college. These include Lincoln Douglas, Policy, Public Forum, Parliamentary, and Congressional Debates, as well as speech events like Original Oratory, Interpretation, and Extemporaneous Speaking.

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About us:

/r/Debate is a subreddit dedicated to discussing competitive speech and debate as commonly practiced in high school and college. These include Lincoln Douglas, Policy, Public Forum, Congressional, and Parliamentary debate, as well as interpretation events like Original Orat...

Subscribers

56,979

Created

June 24, 2008

Type

public

Whitelist Status

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Flags

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Community Reviewed

Total Submissions

51,567

Total Comments

327,792

Earliest Submission

June 24, 2008

Earliest Comment

June 24, 2008

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Most Distinctive Words

Year

2024

Total Words in Subreddit

1,615,999

Total Words in Reddit

119,924,722,855

Rank↕	Word↕	Occurrences in Subreddit ↕	Total Occurrences ↕	Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) ↕	Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) ↕	Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) ↕
#1	debater	887	43,635	548.9	0.4	1508.54
#2	parli	408	33,933	252.5	0.3	892.29
#3	forensics	830	78,249	513.6	0.7	787.17
#4	novices	216	24,645	133.7	0.2	650.42
#5	tourn	134	16,861	82.9	0.1	589.78
#6	rfd	123	16,103	76.1	0.1	566.85
#7	miscellaneous	1,354	188,574	837.9	1.6	532.85
#8	rebuttals	202	31,158	125.0	0.3	481.12
#9	incubate	92	14,942	56.9	0.1	456.93
#10	nats	463	78,017	286.5	0.7	440.41
#11	toc	807	139,880	499.4	1.2	428.14
#12	debate	21,258	3,819,062	13154.7	31.8	413.08
#13	crowdsource	78	15,661	48.3	0.1	369.61
#14	bq	126	32,992	78.0	0.3	283.42
#15	pf	2,433	654,246	1505.6	5.5	275.97
#16	ndt	88	25,923	54.5	0.2	251.92
#17	alumni	744	223,308	460.4	1.9	247.25
#18	invitational	82	24,918	50.7	0.2	244.21
#19	devoted	1,353	412,695	837.3	3.4	243.30
#20	impromptu	234	77,865	144.8	0.6	223.02
#21	elims	63	21,287	39.0	0.2	219.63
#22	aff	1,352	461,665	836.6	3.8	217.33
#23	varsity	349	121,351	216.0	1.0	213.43
#24	ld	1,974	690,518	1221.5	5.8	212.15
#25	exempted	104	38,509	64.4	0.3	200.42
#26	tournaments	1,614	613,602	998.8	5.1	195.20
#27	args	158	60,502	97.8	0.5	193.80
#28	neg	946	363,611	585.4	3.0	193.07
#29	paradigms	79	30,414	48.9	0.3	192.76
#30	quals	68	26,510	42.1	0.2	190.36
#31	judges	2,177	879,985	1347.2	7.3	183.59
#32	nationals	482	195,524	298.3	1.6	182.94
#33	parliamentary	242	102,570	149.8	0.9	175.09
#34	speeches	639	272,911	395.4	2.3	173.76
#35	rebuttal	420	185,111	259.9	1.5	168.38
#36	sups	51	23,225	31.6	0.2	162.96
#37	novice	539	258,555	333.5	2.2	154.70
#38	rebut	49	25,250	30.3	0.2	144.01
#39	utilitarianism	48	24,765	29.7	0.2	143.84
#40	speech	7,899	4,206,456	4888.0	35.1	139.36
#41	proteus	35	18,722	21.7	0.2	138.73
#42	tourneys	79	43,709	48.9	0.4	134.13
#43	argumentation	130	76,429	80.4	0.6	126.23
#44	arguments	3,880	2,474,166	2401.0	20.6	116.38
#45	isd	52	35,178	32.2	0.3	109.70
#46	debates	819	563,896	506.8	4.7	107.78
#47	docket	73	50,457	45.2	0.4	107.37
#48	prelims	84	59,690	52.0	0.5	104.43
#49	affirmative	206	147,089	127.5	1.2	103.93
#50	teenagers	2,001	1,434,166	1238.2	12.0	103.54

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