When Slate‘s John Dickerson asked readers for input on how to improve the presidential debates, I expected there’d be some good suggestions that could drastically improve the whole sorry process.

Turns out most people would rather see presidential debating turned into some sort of political reality TV show:

Various readers suggested American Idol- or Survivor-type methods for voting candidates off the stage if their answers were no good…

Others suggested a bracket system, with one-on-one contests and winners advancing to subsequent rounds…

A lot of readers seemed to think the candidates cribbed off of one another. They wanted to put all of them in soundproof booths and make them answer the same question.

I’m not sure that’s what we should be aiming for.