The debate - The good, the bad and the ugly

During the idea presentation of the final project, the class was divided into 2 groups, one is supposed to support whichever group from their side and one is supposed to shoot the idea down. While this certainly is a more interesting way to present things than just sit there for hours listening passively, it has certain drawbacks and certain things I realized. And perhaps no one will read the blog so I thought I took my thoughts down

The good:
- People are more involved and they actually listen and talk about what was presented
- Pressure helps the group to present better
- Time management was good (or at least not as bad as it used to be). And the time limit imposed on the presentation make it more realistic to real-life presentations

The bad:
- A lot of time I feel people get the idea, they just purposely dig deep into some minor or really irrelevant points for the sake of attacking.
- It's always easy to criticize than to defend. Especially when the one who understand about it the most cant explain. No one is protecting your dreams the way you do. But everyone is just gonna shoot you down. I believe when YouTube started out a lot a lot people also said it was a stupid idea (I still think it is).

The ugly:
- The class got split to half and basically some arguments don't make sense at all. After some time I just decided there were too much negativity so I gave up.
- Some comments/attacks turned to personal and making fun of classmates. It's not helping and not constructive at all. I believe the purpose of the session is to suggest to the group how to improve, not discourage them

But I guess it's a pretty close simulation of life where people, because of politics and competition, they will just dismiss your ideas. Guess our group will just have to persevere, which is exactly what we will do because we know we are providing something very different, something more than an extension of what already is there. And we are happy funny people, so we shall come up with a happy funny interactive site :)