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ubertuber · 03-10-2007, 09:27 PM

I'm with Supple and MSD.

There are only a few conversation styles that happen here anymore, and I'm not interested in them.

There's the one where people do line by line quote and reply posts to each other - where it's apparent that they are searching for ways to "zing" each other and declare "gotcha points". This is just tedious.

There's the one where the vast majority of posters agree with each other and slap each other on the back. This behavior is broken up only for the occasional chance to gang-rape the hapless soul who disagrees. Here I say hapless not because they don't have facts (which sometimes they don't), but because it's pointless to carry on a debate that is 1 on 23.

Then there's the thing where nearly every thread ends up as the same conversation. I'm sure somewhere in the realm of politics there is a topic that doesn't come down to "Bush sucks", but you wouldn't know it from reading this forum. This doesn't bother me because I like Bush, it bothers me because it is tedious, repetitive, and smacks more of an agenda than a discussion.

And then...I'm going to be blunt here...I felt choked by trying to read your posts host. I was really making the effort for a while, but so many of your articles were not relevant to the topic or were selectively quoted (so as to be inaccurate in the context of the discussion here). There was more emphasis on volume of material than there was on relevance or quality. Wading through all that material was a waste of time more often than not, and it kept me out of discussions because I was reading and digesting every word of previous posts in good faith before I contributed. I'm getting the impression that things have changed in this regard and I keep meaning to come back and give you guys a shot again, but this won't happen until after tax season is over and my job calms down.

I see little evidence that most posters in this forum are actually interested in discussing things with people who don't already agree with them. No one learns from the other side - they only try to find ways to shut them down. Things have been like that for a while here, and I don't think it is a positive thing at all.

03-10-2007, 09:27 PM	#30 (permalink)
ubertuber spudly Location: Ellay	I'm with Supple and MSD. There are only a few conversation styles that happen here anymore, and I'm not interested in them. There's the one where people do line by line quote and reply posts to each other - where it's apparent that they are searching for ways to "zing" each other and declare "gotcha points". This is just tedious. There's the one where the vast majority of posters agree with each other and slap each other on the back. This behavior is broken up only for the occasional chance to gang-rape the hapless soul who disagrees. Here I say hapless not because they don't have facts (which sometimes they don't), but because it's pointless to carry on a debate that is 1 on 23. Then there's the thing where nearly every thread ends up as the same conversation. I'm sure somewhere in the realm of politics there is a topic that doesn't come down to "Bush sucks", but you wouldn't know it from reading this forum. This doesn't bother me because I like Bush, it bothers me because it is tedious, repetitive, and smacks more of an agenda than a discussion. And then...I'm going to be blunt here...I felt choked by trying to read your posts host. I was really making the effort for a while, but so many of your articles were not relevant to the topic or were selectively quoted (so as to be inaccurate in the context of the discussion here). There was more emphasis on volume of material than there was on relevance or quality. Wading through all that material was a waste of time more often than not, and it kept me out of discussions because I was reading and digesting every word of previous posts in good faith before I contributed. I'm getting the impression that things have changed in this regard and I keep meaning to come back and give you guys a shot again, but this won't happen until after tax season is over and my job calms down. I see little evidence that most posters in this forum are actually interested in discussing things with people who don't already agree with them. No one learns from the other side - they only try to find ways to shut them down. Things have been like that for a while here, and I don't think it is a positive thing at all. __________________ Cogito ergo spud -- I think, therefore I yam