Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1018594-20150721025435/@comment-1251315-20150722192334

Legendary Super Saiya-Jin 4 wrote: Completely ruling out the databooks themselves isn't a good idea imo. Ruling out the stats? That's fine, because they're flawed. But the databooks themselves are quite useful and informative, but they shouldn't be the focal point of your argument. That's all fine and well, but like I said, people have the very annoying habit of going around this wiki's forums and saying "The databook said so, screw your opinion because it's not based on databook info". The information might be useful and informative to some, but not everyone has a databook, in fact a very small proportion of people probably have a databook. I know I don't have them and I would feel incredibly insulted and belittled if some random user just decided to come along and decide my opinion is worthless, all on the basis of "you don't have the databooks, your opinions aren't wanted, piss off."

Banning the use of a databook in debates for a while would probably solve that problem, allowing the moderators to come up with a workable solution to allowing their use in debates. I don't see any other solution than just an outright ban of databook use in debate discussions, it's being used as a tactic to belittle and insult people's opinions, which is unacceptable behaviour. Or does the wiki want to condone such behaviour?

Having never had a databook, I am probably clueless in what the databooks cover, but to my knowledge, I am not aware of the databook actually adding anything to the series, other than statistics. I believe they are nothing more than character profile books, so most of the information provided in them are, to be nitpicky, statistics. Feats and substantiated speculation are obviously derived from manga chapters or anime episodes from the unseen content, rather than the databook.

I realise I'm off-topic, but the databook is of importance to this discussion as it seems to be the main cause of the drama in the debate boards. After all: this thread is about discussing parameters for versus debates.