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Originally Posted by mrklixx
Your comments are a little surprising, I will admit. I said what I did because it seemed like your commentary was like so many other people's posts in the Entertainment and Music forums, in that they are superlative laced, and presented as "fact" rather than "opinion". To me "So and So can't sing" is completely different than "I don't like the way so and so sings"
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I understand what you're saying, but let me try to help out a bit. This is an Entertainment thread, not a news thread. When someone writes "Makalah was voted off last week," that is a declarative statement of fact than can be true or false. In this case is true. When someone writes "Bo was voted off last week," that too is a declarative statement...a false declarative statement.
However, the vast majority of comments on this board are opinion. They may not be written as such, but they are. But that's OK. It is easy to figure out which ones are merely opinion. When someone writes "Carrie Underwood is the worst singer in the history of American Idol," that is a declarative statement, but it is neither true nor false. It is opinion. In order for it to be able to have a truth value ascribed to it, it must be recast as you suggest ("I think Carrie Underwood is the worst singer in the history of American Idol" -- I don't, this is just an example).
Embrace the opinions. Don't let the the fact that they are presented as fact get in the way of enjoying the debate. It's great fun. I've met several people who recoil at the kind of construction you refer to. It gets in the way of the fun that discourse can provide. Don't let it.