Using pronouns on your profile
Adding pronouns to your profile is a great way to let other competitors and judges know how you would like to be identified. You can’t always know someone’s pronouns simply by looking at them, and so adding pronouns to your profile gives others the opportunity to both interact with you and also respect your gender identity. Pronouns are shared in blasts that go out before each debate round, and this gives everyone a chance to familiarize themselves with them before the round begins.
Follow these steps below to add pronouns to your Tabroom.com profile.
- Log in to Tabroom.com.
- Click the Profile button next to your email in the top right corner of the screen.
- Fill out your preferred pronouns in the box and click the button below to Save Changes.
Enabling Diversity-Enhancing Judging
Tabroom.com offers tournament directors an option for judges to self-identify as “diverse.” Enabling this feature is not required to run your tournament, but using it will help make your tournament’s judging pool more equitable. Diversity-enhancing judging is enabled for whole judge categories.
After logging into Tabroom.com, click on your tournament on the right side of the screen. The option can be set by navigating to Settings » Judges:
- Select the appropriate event under Judge Categories on the right.
- Click the Ratings tab.
- Under Registration Settings, click the checkbox that says “judges may self-identify as diversity enhancing,” as shown below.
When enabled, this feature adds a checkbox to any registered judge’s details page for them to identify as a “Diversity-enhancing judge.”
Enabling diversity-enhanced judges enables the judge placement algorithm to use an associated Mutually Preferred Judging weight for diverse judging to attempt to place more diverse judges. This weight can be adjusted in judge group settings by navigating to Settings » Judges:
- Select the appropriate event under Judge Categories on the right.
- Click the Tabbing tab.
- Under Pairing Settings, select “Use diversity tracking” and “Show diversity opt-ins on prefs.”
Enabling diversity-enhanced judges also enables the visual display of a judge’s diversity status, when other judge information is available. A judge’s self-identified diversity marker is not displayed when judge information is anonymized (note the green “D” character next to a judge’s place on the pairing).
Utilizing Implicit Bias Language
Implicit bias language is the default on all ballots for online tournaments in Tabroom.com. The NSDA recommends tournament directors to use this language because it encourages judges to ignore factors beyond the competitor’s control that may affect their speech or debate performance. This ensures a more equitable experience among all participants.
To make changes to the ballot language, follow these steps:
- Click on your tournament on the right side of the screen.
- Select Settings » Events.
- Click the Ballots & Rules tab, then edit the ballot text as you deem fit. Be sure to click the Save Messages button at the bottom of the screen when you are finished.
