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Originally Posted by ottopilot
Regarding point 3, I most often used links and articles to support my positions. However, I felt like all the volume of "evidence gathering" that goes on kind of takes away from the conversation...like the one we are having now.
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Regarding this, being a great chunk of the question, it's about
posting style. I'll admit that I've had dozens, possibly hundreds of posts that read like a host post. They're thousands of words long with multiple links. One reason that I posted like that was because it's like condensing a dozen posts into one. In the GMO thread and depleted uranium thread, it was necessary for me to present large and extremely strong points with tons of evidence lest my points be taken as paranoia and dismissed.
I can probably go back and find a few old posts of mine that are necessarily gargantuan. Not all of my posts are this way, but frankly, a post in "The Dark Knight" in Entertainment doesn't need to me 12 pages long. If I only posted in Politics and only about things that absolutely needed a shit-ton of support, you may see me develop into host: the next generation. Unfortunately, I don't have the energy for that. I recognize that I don't know enough about the world on my own and that host happens to do a lot of legwork to help that. If you're bothered by host's style, think of him as a newspaper. He provides more information total than some people can take, so only read his posts in threads that interest you. Also, he does embolden the most important parts of the articles that he links, which can make reading his posts a lot easier for those who aren't capable of reading the whole thing (by capable I don't necessarily means stupid, some people simply don't have the time).