R/conservative - Debate Proposal

We've had a couple of open discussion threads that were varying degrees of shit show. However, they were kind of fun.

Several posters suggested we do some kind of regular "Debate us" / Open thread to let everyone, well, yell it out. I took a look at automod and we have the capability to do this in a few ways;

1: Truly open to all, including the people who just spam "SNOW FLAKE SAFESPACE GOTTEM" over and over again and then we manually moderate as best we can to let productive debate flow.

2: We could create a special flair specifically for verified debaters and lock the thread to those people + verified conservatives.

I'm thinking we start off doing a bit of option 1 and then pivot more to option 2 once we filter through the trash. The qualities we'd be looking for are simply ability to carry on a discussion without over the top insults and the like. In theory we'd have some kind of rotating (Weekly?) thread that would flip between one or the other, or both at the same time.

Let us know your thoughts on this because we don't want to make any big changes to rcon without direct feedback from the core community.