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Originally Posted by JinnKai
When you want to discuss something you believe in or something you experienced providing your own insight is necessary.
But no one knows everything, and there are times when you just want to see what OTHER people think. Maybe you haven't formed an opinion at all, maybe you want honest answers and don't want them skewed by reading your opinion. Maybe you don't even know where to start forming an opinion. Maybe you just heard about something and wonder if other people have more details.
What about THOSE cases? Regardless of the forum they're posted in, there are issues that we can be completely CLUELESS about yet still want to hear the opinions of others. I shouldn't have to spit out some random opinion just so that I can hear the opinions of others.
There's a line where it's obvious that conversation isn't going to happen because the OP is so boring -- but that line is too far out, especially when people are replying to the thread. It obviously had enough of something to spark a discussion.
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You aren't spitting out RANDOM opinion. You are putting out YOUR OWN opinion, right, wrong, misinformed or whatever.
The idea is that you get out of your OWN head and interacting with the other people within the community. It's being a part of the community and giving something or contiributing to it.
One can be clueless, but that doesn't mean they don't have a preconceived notion about it. It maybe right or wrong, but it's still something about it. It again helps to FRAME the discussion as needed by the OP. If it's not framed by the OP then the discussion can go in a completely different direction and STILL NOT ANSWER the OPs question that they truly have.
I don't know anything about molecular biology, but if I was to post something here, I'd have to at least state what little I did know about it, even if it was as simple as stating,"I know nothing about this subject but here is what I know..." It still frames the discussion to some degree.
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